Shopclues.com - Senior Data Scientist - Python/Big Data

Position : Data Scientist

Location : Gurgaon

Job description :

Shopclues is looking for talented Data scientists passionate about building large scale data processing systems to help manage the ever-growing information needs of our clients.

Education :

- PhD/MS or equivalent in Applied mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or operations research background.

- 4+ years experience in a relevant role.

Skills :

- Passion for understanding business problems and trying to address them by leveraging data - characterized by high-volume, high dimensional from multiple sources

- Ability to communicate complex models and analysis in a clear and precise manner

- Experience with building predictive statistical, behavioral or other models via supervised and unsupervised machine learning, statistical analysis, and other predictive modeling techniques.

- Experience using R, SAS, Matlab or equivalent statistical/data analysis tools. Ability to transfer that knowledge to different tools

- Experience with matrices, distributions and probability

- Familiarity with at least one scripting language - Python/Ruby

- Proficiency with relational databases and SQL

Responsibilities :

- Has worked in a big data environment before alongside a big data engineering team (and data visualization team, data and business analysts)

- Translate client's business requirements into a set of analytical models

- Perform data analysis (with a representative sample data slice) and build/prototype the model(s)

- Provide inputs to the data ingestion/engineering team on input data required by the model, size, format, associations, cleansing required

- Identify/Provide approach and data to validate the model(s)

- Collaborate with a technology/data engineering team to transfer the business understanding, get the model product ionized and validate the output along with business users

- Understand business challenges and goals of a client to formulate the approach for data analysis and model creation that will support their business decision making

- Work in highly collaborative teams that strive to build quality systems and provide business value