Data Specialist - Consulting Firm

Our client is a global team of forward-thinking, collaborative partners that delivers immediate, meaningful results and a long-term transformational advantage to our clients and colleagues. We are talented problem solvers who work in a collegial way to create and implement elegantly simple, practical, and sustainable solutions. Our Client Analytics CoE, a practice within our client Inc., offers clients innovative, data driven solutions to solve complex problems in operations, procurement, supply chain, marketing and other functional areas. We are seeking to hire individuals as Data Scientists in our Analytics Center of Excellence in India.

As Data Specialist, your specific responsibilities include the following:

- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture

- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements

- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS - big data- technologies

- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics

- Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

- Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions

- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader

- Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems

What we seek

We are looking for a candidate with 2+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role for Mumbai location, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have hands-on experience of using many software/tools such as:

- Advanced SQL and relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases

- Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets

- Performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement

- Manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets

- Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management

- Big data tools like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.

- Message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable - big data- data stores

- Building and optimizing - big data- data pipelines, architectures and data sets

- Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra

- Development of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.

- AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift

- Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.

- Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

- Visualization tools- Tableau, Power BI, Qlik etc.