Data Scientist

The incumbent will be responsible for delivering advanced analytics projects that drive business results, including interpreting business needs, selecting the appropriate methodology, data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, model building, and creation of polished deliverables.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Analytics and Strategy:

• Analyse large-scale structured and unstructured data; develop deep-dive analyses and machine learning models in retail, marketing, merchandising, and other areas of the business.
• Utilise data mining, statistical and machine learning techniques to derive business value from store, product, operations, financial, and customer transactional data.
• Apply multiple algorithms or architectures and recommend the best model with in-depth description to evangelise data-driven business decisions.
• Utilise cloud setup to extract processed data for statistical modelling and big data analysis, and visualisation tools to represent large sets of time series/cross-sectional data.

Operational Excellence

• Follow industry standards in coding solutions and follow the programming life cycle to ensure standard practices across the project.
• Structure hypotheses, build thoughtful analyses, develop underlying data models and bring clarity to previously undefined problems.
• Partner with Data Engineering to build, design and maintain core data infrastructure, pipelines and data workflows to automate dashboards and analyses.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Working collaboratively across multiple sets of stakeholders - Business functions, Data Engineers, Data Visualisation experts to deliver on project deliverables.
• Articulate complex data science models to business teams and present the insights in easily understandable and innovative formats.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably with a quantitative focus (Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Math, Economics, etc. )
• Master's degree preferred (MBA/MS Computer Science/M. Tech Computer Science, etc. )
• 3 - 4 years for Data Scientist.
• Relevant working experience in a data science/advanced analytics role.

Knowledge:

• Functional Analytics (Supply chain analytics, Marketing Analytics, Customer Analytics, etc. )
• Statistical modelling using Analytical tools (R, Python, KNIME, etc. )
• Knowledge of statistics and experimental design (A/B testing, hypothesis testing, causal inference).
• Practical experience building scalable ML models, feature engineering, model evaluation metrics, and statistical inference.
• Practical experience deploying models using MLOps tools and practices (e. g., MLflow, DVC, Docker, etc. )
• Strong coding proficiency in Python (Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow, etc. )
• Big data technologies and frameworks (AWS, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, Spark, etc. )
• Enterprise reporting systems, relational (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server etc. ), non-relational (MongoDB, DynamoDB) database management systems and Data Engineering tools.
• Business intelligence and reporting (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, etc. )
• Microsoft Office applications (MS Excel, etc. )