Data Scientist - Advanced Analytics

Roles & Responsibilities:

- This role involves working with senior stakeholders in understanding and identifying the business requirements and needs. Developing and implementing statistical models and machine learning algorithms to answer business questions.

We are looking for a professional with:

- Extensive hands on experience working with very large data sets, including statistical analysis, data visualization, data mining, and data cleansing/transformation.

- Strong ability to communicate analytical results in a way that is meaningful for business stakeholders and provides actionable insights.

- Has successfully demonstrated in prior experience the ability to discover new opportunities where analytical techniques can be leveraged for solving business problems across the company

Desired Skills & Experience

- 8- 12 years of relevant experience with an organization known for its cutting edge/ best-in-class applicability of advanced analytics and predictive modeling techniques.

- Master’s Degree / PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, Operations Research)

- Extensive knowledge of and experience in applying data mining and machine learning techniques in a professional context

- High level of comfort with various data types and structures: structured versus unstructured data, or static versus stream data

- Extensive prior experience in integrating data, profiling, validating and cleansing data

- High level of proficiency in statistical tools like SAS, R

- Well versed/ good understanding of programming languages like Java/C/C++ in order to generate derived data

- Experience with Hadoop, relational databases and SQL is preferred

Please send across CVs at anisha@pylonmc.com