Responsibilities
The person would be an integral part of Discussion Science unit and would act as the owner of the database. S/he would need to structure complex database systems and designing/developing analytical solutions. S/He should have expertise in analyzing large data sets, data warehousing, and mining techniques. Also should have skills in unstructured data analysis and machine learning techniques. Specifically, S/ he will be expected to perform the following roles:
Solving business problems by :
- Setting up and maintaining TB/GB+ size structure/unstructured database
- Performing data integration, manipulation, and querying for purposes of reporting and more sophisticated analytics
- Playing a significant role in team problem solving
- Act as owner of the database with the in-depth understanding of all files and fields.
- Should be able to understand the business requirements and marry it with the data structure.
- Manage and manipulate unstructured data (Social media, text, video, etc)
- Though leader with management on adopting new age data warehousing and machine learning techniques.
- Provide guidance and leadership to teams on analytics projects
- Provide data mining and analytical support on projects, including conducting analysis, building data-intensive models/tools, summarize and interpreting results
- Actively participate in building team's strategy on knowledge and capability development. Explores wider horizons both internally and externally to expand the service offerings of the team
- Data Visualization capabilities would be added plus
We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated both a strong business sense and high logical and programming skills
Skill Set Required
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
- Strong programming skills in SQL Server, SAS, MS Access, VBA
- Strong knowledge of packages like SSIS and SSRS
- Knowledge of unstructured/ non-relational data. Has deep knowledge of Hadoop, PIG, HIVE.
- Demonstrated abilities to bring strong business sense to bear
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and ever-evolving client requirements
- Highly entrepreneurial and innovative mindset
- Experience in data manipulation and handling large datasets; Data extraction, data transformation (standardization, cleaning, data repair, matching, and de-duping) and refinement
- Experience in working with relational databases; ability to identify needed data elements to support reporting requests
- Supervising, mentoring, training and management of analysts within the team
- Good written and verbal communication skills. Fluent in both written and spoken English; prior experience in a multi-national environment desirable.
- Energetic, cooperative and pleasant personality. Able to work with and coach effectively a diverse group of team members
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines
Education & Previous Experience Required
- Post-graduate OR Graduate degree in Computer Applications/Engineering/Mathematics (with strong quantitative background).
- 7-10 years experience in working with programming on SQL Reporting Services 2005/2008, PL/SQL (Oracle/MySQL) and T-SQL (MS SQL server), SAS (Base/Mainframe), JAVA, C++, .net etc
- Deep knowledge of HBase, Hadoop, HIVE, PIG, NOSQL,
- Hand on experience of managing structure & unstructured data
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