Manager - Data Science - Utility/Energy Sector

About The Company:

ARA's client is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 8+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US.

The Role:

Looking for a Data Science leader to help build the Data Science organization. The person will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and analysts on a wide range of problems, bringing scientific thought and statistical methods to leverage the vast amount of data. Ultimately enabling the product team to build, develop and improve products that will revolutionize the energy industry.

Key Responsibilities:

- Build a Data Science organization, allowing the company to harness the power of data in developing and marketing new products.

- Liaise with Product and Business Leaders to understand issues, priorities and support them through relevant product and business analytics.

- Deliver data backed analysis and statistically proven solutions.

- Ability to work across time zones in a dynamic start-up setting.

- Analyzing vast amounts of data to identify patterns and create thought leadership on customer.

Skills Required:

- Experience in the utility or energy industries

- Strong project management and leadership skills.

- Demonstrated ability to build processes and implement tools from the ground-up.

- Ability to coach and mentor analysts on technical and analytical skills.

- Proven analytical and quantitative skills and an ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases, and complete root cause analyses.

- Ability to employ statistics and anomaly detection techniques for data-driven analytics.

- Ability to process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis and modeling.

- Solid experience with common data science toolkits, such as scikit-learn, Spark ML, pandas, Scipy,etc.

- Strong SQL knowledge: working experience with standard Business Intelligence tools is a great plus.

- Experience dealing with large quantities of data across relational and NoSQL databases, cloud storage, and distributed compute systems.

- Ability to scale data science solutions with a keen understanding of how to optimize performance and mitigate computing cost.

- Experience with data visualization tools.

Qualifications & Experience:

Qualification: BE / MCA/ M.Sc / M.S / ME

Experience: 10+ Years