Chief/Head - Data Scientist - Retail

Job Description:

Position: Chief Data Scientist / Head Data Sciences

Location: Bangalore

Designation: Senior Manager

Skills: Big Data, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Predictive Software

Major responsibilities:

- Recruit, coach, and manage a team of scientists

- Innovate and leverage machine learning, data mining and statistical methodologies

- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation

- Extract signals from peta-byte scale, unstructured data sets

- Coordinate with distributed cross-functional teams on common goals

Basic Qualifications:

- PhD in CS, Machine Learning, Operational research, Statistics or in a highly quantitative field.

- Industrial experience in machine learning and predictive modeling, including 2+ years experience in leading junior team members and guiding them on machine learning and data modeling applications

- Proficient in Java, C/C++, or Python (or similar scripting language)

- Proficient in R, Matlab, or another statistical software

- Strong communication and data presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- Industrial experience in predictive modeling and analysis, predictive software development

- Experience handling gigabyte and terabyte size datasets

- Experience working with distributed systems and grid computing

- Experience working with distributed teams

- Publications or presentation in recognized Machine Learning and Data Mining journals/conferences

Shankar
Lead Consultant