Data Scientist - IT/Analytics Consulting Firm

Urgent hiring for our client (Major IT/Analytics consulting firm) for the role of Data Scientist for Bangalore Location (Local Candidates preferred)

- Must Haves:

Educational Background: Mechanical/Aeronautics

Job Description:

Must have skill set:

- Apply natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning techniques to process and analyze textual data

- Work with structured and semi-structured data

Key Responsibilities:

- To execute proof of concepts and implement projects in Advanced Analytics using Statistical and Optimization techniques for deriving business insights with measurable success

- To create Solution approach for innovative scenarios

- To define a hypothesis and to identify the analysis trail for the given business problem.

- To collaborate with the technology team and support the development of analytical models with the effective use of data and analytic techniques.

- To validate the model results and articulate the insights to the business team.

- Drive the Business requirements gathering for analytics projects

Qualifications:

- Development Technologies: Python, R, SQL, (good to have Spark, Pandas, Scikit learn)

- Experience with Time Series, forecasting, machine learning is mandatory and deep learning libraries in Python is highly desirable

- Intellectual curiosity - eagerness to learn new things

- High ability to - data munge

- Experience with unstructured data

- Ability to effectively visualize and communicate analysis results

- Excellent communication

- Good written and verbal skills & team skills

- Strong problem-solving skills & proactive attitude