Data Scientist

JD for Data Scientist:

Job Location: Chennai

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