Data Scientist - Management Consulting Firm

Responsibilities:

- Understand various technologies that are currently deployed on the products and improve, rebuild and maintain them over the course of time

- Strong hands-on experience into machine learning and data science model implementation across domains

- Knowledge into Deep learning/neural networks would be an added advantage

- Candidates with hands-on experience into text analytics will be preferred

- Candidate is expected to setup/build statistical and machine learning models to solve complex business problems with limited support

- Candidate will be the point of contact for all the data science projects within team and will be taking lead on stakeholder communication for the same

Qualifications:

- Work experience: 6+ years of experience for Senior-associate and 4+ years of experience for associate

- In areas related to machine learning, data analytics or predictive modelling. Hands-on experience in predictive modelling, text analytics and data analysis

- Education Required: Incumbent should be an engineer from top-tier institute or statistical/analytical course from a tier 1 university

Preferred: Concentration in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Econometrics, Business Analytics, or Market Research is strongly preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

- Advanced knowledge of different Machine Learning techniques, statistical methodologies and Text analytics or Natural Language Processing (NLP) is preferred

- Strong hands-on Experience and knowledge of working in Python/R and MS Excel. This is mandatory