Zopper - Data Scientist - IIT/NIT

Data Scientist

Zopper is seeking a Data Scientist to join our Analytics Team. The insights we drive from our analytics, will be a huge part of our success and growth. As a member of our analytics team, you will develop and disseminate tools, that will be used across the company to help stakeholders make decisions more efficiently and effectively.

Responsibilities :

- Collaboratively identify opportunities to integrate data into decision processes. With your help decisions should take less time, allocate resources more effectively, incorporate more sources of information, make decisions more transparent, and more explicitly consider alternative courses of action.

- Work with business intelligence and product analysts to translate regular work processes like reporting or marketing campaign evaluations into clear, outlined processes. Then convert those processes into algorithmic applications.

- Provide strategic market insights, and competitor analysis.

- Consistently raise data and analytic standards by improving and developing new statistical methods and algorithms.

- Ensure that the various databases and data pipelines across the company are as accessible and usable as possible for stakeholders and decision makers at every level.

Requirements :

- B Tech, CSE from a Tier 1 College; a Masters in CSE is preferred

- 5+ Years of experience in a data science role.

- Experience with capturing, managing, and processing Big Data (terabytes of data present in weblogs, documents, etc.).

- Skilled in manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources.

- Comfortable communicating and working with non-technical partners and colleagues to translate tasks done by humans into tasks that can be done by algorithms. Capable of implementing your designs as reusable and scalable programs and applications.

- Fluency with at least one scripting language like Python, Ruby or Scala. You should be able to build Django apps and be comfortable with the idea of using Python libraries (or equivalent) like Celery or Luigi.

- Knowledge of non-relational databases like MongoDB or Hadoop, query tools (e.g. Hive or Pig) and tools for distributed computation (e.g. Spark) are highly desirable.