Tech Mahindra - Data Scientist - Manufacturing/Retail/Telecom/HealthCare/Energy&Utility/BFSI

Data Scientist / Advanced Analytics

We are focusing on augmenting our capabilities around Big-data Analytics to strengthen our Data Science team. We are seeking individuals who are smart, have passion to learn and are hungry to make a difference with strong in-depth understanding of - data to insights- processes and methods. The person should be a passionate hard-core Data Scientists / Advanced Analytics professional. The individual will be a key member in Advanced Analytics team and will be driving innovation and delivery across existing and potential clients. To qualify, the candidate must have solid experience in the field of data science.

Job Requirement

The person will be required to:

- Build required statistical models and heuristics to predict, optimize, and guide various aspects of our business based on available data

- Design, implement, and iterate through statistical experiments to incrementally maximize site margin while minimizing risk

- Extract and consume data to analyze and produce robust advanced analytics models / outcomes

- Conduct business due-diligence activities to identify analytics led opportunities for transforming business

- Traveling with in and outside of India on short term or long term basis

Required Skills and Experience

- Experience with some of these methods: Regression, Decision Trees, CART, Random Forest, Boosting, Evolutionary Programming, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Bayesian Belief Networks, Support Vector Machines, Ensemble Methods, Association Rules, Singular Value Decomposition, Principal Component Analysis, Cluster Analysis

- Experience in some of these applications: Collaborative Filtering, Personalization, Consumer Segmentation, NLP, Text Analytics, Information Retrieval, Search Relevance.

- Familiarity with time-series analysis and implications on how to model and test

- Solid data management and statistical modeling skills: R, Python (SciPy, NumPy), SQL and Excel

- Experience with Big Data. Distributed computing (e.g. map/reduce) is a plus, especially Hadoop, Mahout, Pig, Hive.

- Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities

- Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline driven environment.

- Good project management skills

- Ability to work as a consultant

Qualifications:

- BE/BTech from Tier 1 colleges (IIT/ISI/NIT/BITS/BIT/IIIT/REC) in Computer Science/Statistics/IT/ECE stream

- MS or Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics, or equivalent

- 4-10 yrs of work experience