Data Scientist

The ideal candidate's favorite words are learning, data, scale, and agility. You will leverage your strong collaboration skills and ability to extract valuable insights from highly complex data sets to ask the right questions and find the right answers. If this is you, then consider an opportunity with RAIK Solutions under our Product Development Team. Product Development Team (PDT) is a talent model that is tailored specifically for long-term, life changing, sustainable innovative solutions on latest technologies to solve problems with technology.

Responsibilities

• Selecting features, building, and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Using NLP to extract information from unstructured text
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying data integrity used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a user-friendly way
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of their performance
• Extending the company’s data with third-party sources of information when needed
• Create technical documentation for code, architecture, and application function
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel to meet the company’s needs
• Flexible to work on different sets of technologies as and when required
• Positive, upbeat personality

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in data science or related field. Minimum three years of relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc.
• Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable.
• Experience with data visualization tools like D3.js, GGplot, etc..
• Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase
• Good, applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc
• Good scripting and programming skills
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Ability to lead in a high-pressure, fast paced and changing environment to ensure objectives are met in a timely manner and achieved within utmost quality
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to create insightful and progressive functional multi-year strategy