Vice President - Big Data & Data Sciences - Bank

About Our Client

Our client is a leading global retail bank. As part of expansion of their global analytics team, they are looking for a seasoned analytics professionals that can play a critical role in establishing and building their Data Sciences practice

Job Description

As a Vice President, you would be a part of the Leadership team and play a role in defining strategic direction for the group. In addition, you would be responsible for :-

- To clearly formulate analytical hypothesis Perform ad-hoc analysis to support it, communicate results clearly, and understand cause & effect relationships

- Help develop a state of the art MIS infrastructure using process automation tools

- Interface with clients to design data driven analytic and reporting solutions primarily using SAS, Unix, & Cognos

- Identify reporting developed in SAS to be transitioned to Cognos and build long-term roadmap/vision for a reporting platform based on Cognos and SAS

- Leverage appropriate technology to develop solution (coding, testing, data retrieval)

The Successful Applicant

As a successful applicant you should have :

- Bachelors/Masters in Mathematics and Computing / Statistics /Operational Research from IITs and similar Tier I institutes

- 5-10 years of experience in working on Big data stack and Machine Learning algorithms

- Hands on experience in Graph Theory, Text Mining, Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Impala, HBase, Mahout, Spark, Storm

- Excellent Programming skills in Python, Java, SQL

What's on Offer

The role gives the candidate a chance to work in the Big Data space for one of the largest credit card issuers in the world. The individual would form part of the Leadership team and responsible for contributing towards the vision of the organization