Consultant - Lead Data Scientist - Analytics Firm

Experience: 5 years - 8 years

Education requirement: B. Tech/BE or MSc or MBA or MTech in Stats, Economics, Mathematics, Finance or any other quantitative discipline

Responsibilities:

- Complete accountability for delivering 1-2 projects from conception to implementation

- Managing the team of Associates and Senior Associates

- Interviewing client intelligently to learn important figures and gather requirements

- Managing project timing, client expectations and meeting deadlines

- Creating smart & impactful PowerPoint presentations

- Playing proactive role in business development (preparing sales collaterals, pitch documents etc.) and organization building (training, recruitment etc.)

- Presentation of final results to the client and discuss further opportunities within/outside the project along with maintaining documentation and reports

- Plan deliverables and milestones for the project that you are responsible for

- Provide business analysis and business area assessment

- Facilitate meetings within the team on regular basis

- Track and report team hours

Desired Skills & Experience:

- SQL - Mandate

- MSFT PowerPoint

- Excel

- Statistical Packages - R and/or Python - Mandate; PySpark, Scala is a plus

- Statistical Modelling and/or Machine Learning, Deep Learning

- Big Data Environments such as Hadoop, Hive, etc.

Qualitative skills:

- Should have played project and team management roles

- Strong and Deep Domain knowledge

Behavioral Competences:

- This candidate must have the ability to think strategically and analytically in order to effectively assess each assignment

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Ability to work in tight deadlines & under pressure

- Excellent interpersonal & organizational skills