Data Scientist

Job Description

JD for Data Scientist: Job Location: Chennai Job Description: Apply strong expertise in machine-learning, data mining, and information retrieval to design, prototype, and build the next-generation analytics engines and services. Responsibilities Being a core technical member of Chola?s Analytics team, who understands business problems and requirements and designs end-to-end analytics solution. Translate high level business requirements into comprehensive analytical framework through usage of functional and technical skillset. Work closely with stakeholders across business, credit under writing, technology and marketing to support and implement high quality, data driven decisions Develops complex models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization. This may include improving on-time performance, network planning, etc., Conducts advanced statistical analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance. Provides thought leadership by researching best practices, conducting experiments, and collaborating with industry leaders. Work on data collection, processing, modelling and analysis, employ variety of languages and tools to marry system together Designing and developing data science and engineering solutions using the latest tools and platforms offered by AWS. Collaborates with model developers to implement and deploy scalable solutions. Qualification & Other Attributes: 4+ years data science experience in the relevant industry or similar role in the past organization Master?s Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Operations Research) In depth knowledge of data analysis, machine learning algorithms, statistics, optimization. Strong coding experience with at least one of the programming languages namely R or Python Experience working structured as well as unstructured datasets is highly preferred. Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work as a team. Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment. Additionally, having prior experience working with databases Oracle, MongoDB is also preferred. Knowledge in python frameworks like Django, FastAPI, Flask etc. Good to have: Ability to code in TensorFlow or Pytorch Familiarity with Unix command line interface Fair understanding of banking/NBFC sector Cloud platforms: Amazon web services (Lambda, Sagemaker, Glue etc) Big data: Hadoop, spark, Kafka, Angoss is a plus Excel, word and PowerPoint Programming language: Python, R, SQL