Data Science -Senior Associate

At PwC, our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilise advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimise their operations and achieve their strategic goals. In data analysis at PwC, you will focus on utilising advanced analytical techniques to extract insights from large datasets and drive data-driven decision-making. You will leverage skills in data manipulation, visualisation, and statistical modelling to support clients in solving complex business problems.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

The Opportunity

When you join PwC Acceleration Centers (ACs), you step into a pivotal role focused on actively supporting various Acceleration Center services, from Advisory to Assurance, Tax and Business Services. In our innovative hubs, you’ll engage in challenging projects and provide distinctive services to support client engagements through enhanced quality and innovation. You’ll also participate in dynamic and digitally enabled training that is designed to grow your technical and professional skills.

As part of the Data Science team you are expected to build machine learning models in cloud environments. As a Senior Associate you are expected to leverage your knowledge in supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms, mentor junior team members, and confirm the delivery of top-quality data analysis. You are expected to prepare data for machine learning use cases, use visualization tools, and guide teams in programming.

Responsibilities

• Build machine learning models in cloud environments
• Utilize specialized knowledge in supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms
• Mentor junior team members
• Verify top-quality data analysis delivery
• Prepare data for machine learning use cases
• Use visualization tools to present data
• Guide teams in programming
  
  

What You Must Have

• Master Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Econometrics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Informatics
• 4 years of experience
• Oral and written proficiency in English required
  
  

What Sets You Apart

• Experience in building ML models in cloud environments (At least 1 of the 3: Azure ML, GCP's Vertex AI platform, AWS SageMaker)
• Thorough knowledge and experience of supervised, unsupervised machine learning algorithms
• Thorough knowledge of statistics
• Experience in Data analysis
• Experience in machine learning frameworks and tools
• Advanced level programming in SQL or Python/Pyspark
• Proficiency with visualization tools
• Working knowledge of containerization, Dockers and data pipeline orchestration