Vodafone Idea - AGM - Data Scientist

Role - Data Scientist

Job Level/ Designation- M2/AGM

Function / Department -Big Data and Advanced Analytics

Location Mumbai

Job Purpose :

- This role in the Big Data and Advanced Analytics gives an excellent opportunity to solve real business problems working on massive and varied data sets.

- Data Scientists will be responsible for building key predictive models and analytics products across verticals in the organization.

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities :

- Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes

- Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data

- Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns

- Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms

- Combine models through ensemble modelling

- Present information using data visualization techniques

- Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges

- Collaborate with product development teams

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

- Proven expertise with a variety of Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques across structured and unstructured data sets

- Hands on proficiency in statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. Python, R, Spark, SQL, Visualization tools)

- Experience working on Big Data technologies (e.g. Hadoop MR, Hive, NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, Graph Databases etc.) Experience working in a Cloud environment is a plus.

- Working knowledge across Marketing / Customer Analytics / Recommendation systems

- Experience in development of interactive dashboards or visualization - Javascript and JavaScript libraries, ggplot, Shiny apps, D3.js etc.

- Top notch problem-solving skills with excellent communication and storytelling skills

- Ability to work in cross functional teams to translate business issues into potential analytics solutions

- Knowledge of complete lifecycle of ML products (business understanding -> research -> model selection based on business and engineering constraints -> model scaling and deployment)

Years of Experience:

- Graduate or PG degree in quantitative disciplines like Statistics/ Analytics/ Maths/ Engineering or Operation Research from top ranked universities with exposure to AI/ ML/ Data Mining

- 2-7 years of relevant work experience