Job Description
You will have the opportunity to develop data-driven innovative analytical solutions and identifying opportunities to support business and client needs in a quantitative manner and facilitate informed recommendations / decisions through activities like building ML models, automated data pipelines, design data architecture/schema, perform jobs in big data cluster by using different execution engines and program languages such as Hive/Impala, Python, Spark, R, etc.
Your Role
- Drive the evolution of Data & Services products/platform with an impact focused on data science and engineering
- Participate in development of data and analytic infrastructure for product development
- Collaborate with the Product dev teams to understand tech requirements for new products
- Participate in identification and evaluation of data elements to deliver analytics for product development
- Continuously innovate and determine new approaches, tools, techniques & technologies to solve business problems and generate business insights & recommendations
- Partner with roles across the organization including consultants, engineering, and sales to determine the highest priority problems to solve
- Evaluate trade-offs between many possible analytics solutions to a problem, taking into account usability, technical feasibility, timelines, and differing stakeholder opinions to make a decision
- Break large solutions into smaller, releasable milestones to collect data and feedback from product managers, clients and other stakeholders
- Evangelize releases to users, incorporating feedback, and tracking usage to inform future development
- Ensure proper data governance policies are followed by implementing or validating Data Lineage, Quality checks, classification, etc.
- Work with small, cross-functional teams to define vision, establish team culture and processes
- Consistently focus on key drivers of organization value and prioritize operational activities accordingly
- Identify and act upon product improvement opportunities
- Aggregate and collate client data sets and conduct data manipulation and technical analysis leveraging industry techniques and best practices to identify trends and draw insights
- Clean and structure data sets fed to downstream analytics
- Escalate technical errors or bugs detected in project work
Ideal Candidate Qualifications
- Superior academic record at a leading national university
- In depth technical knowledge, drive and ability to learn new technologies
- Experience on Platforms/ Data Environments
- Prior experience in working in product development/management role
- In depth technical knowledge, drive and ability to learn new technologies
- Outstanding communication skills (both verbal and written) and organizational skills
- Strong project management skills
- Experience in delivering analytics involving all phases like data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, tuning, evaluating, monitoring, and presenting
- Experience in building and deploying production level data driven applications and data processing workflows/pipelines and/or implementing machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, or Python
- Curiosity, creativity, and excitement for technology and innovation
- Demonstrated quantitative and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to multi-task and strong attention to detail
- Motivation, flexibility, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams