Business Analyst

Data Scientist – Program Embedded 

Job Description:   

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated senior data scientist to support a big data program. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting multiple projects in this program covering traditional tasks from revenue management, demand forecasting, improving customer experience to testing/using new tools/platforms such as Copilot Fabric for different purpose. The expected candidate would have deep expertise in machine learning methodology and applications. And he/she should have completed multiple large scale data science projects (full cycle from ideation to BAU). Beyond technical expertise, problem solving in complex set-up will be key to the success for this role. This is a data science role directly embedded into the program/projects, stake holder management and collaborations with patterner are crucial to the success on this role (on top of the deep expertise). 

What we are looking for: 

1. Highly efficient in Python/Pyspark/R. 
2. Understand MLOps concepts, working experience in product industrialization (from Data Science point of view). Experience in building product for live deployment, and continuous development and continuous integration. 
3. Familiar with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, and the data management systems on such platform. Familiar with Databricks and product deployment on Databricks. 
4. Experience in ML projects involving techniques: Regression, Time Series, Clustering, Classification, Dimension Reduction, Anomaly detection with traditional ML approaches and DL approaches. 
5. Solid background in statistics, probability distributions, A/B testing validation, univariate/multivariate analysis, hypothesis test for different purpose, data augmentation etc. 
6. Familiar with designing testing framework for different modelling practice/projects based on business needs. 
7. Exposure to Gen AI tools and enthusiastic about experimenting and have new ideas on what can be done. 
8. If they have improved an internal company process using an AI tool, that would be great (e.g. process simplification, manual task automation, auto emails) 
9. Ideally, 10+ years of experience, and have been on independent business facing roles. 
10. CPG or retail as a data scientist would be nice, but not number one priority, especially for those who have navigated through multiple industries. 
11. Being proactive and collaborative would be essential. 

Some projects examples within the program: 

1. Test new tools/platforms such as Copilo, Fabric for commercial reporting. Testing, validation and build trust. 
2. Building algorithms for predicting trend in category, consumptions to support dashboards. 
3. Revenue Growth Management, create/understand the algorithms behind the tools (can be built by 3rd parties) we need to maintain or choose to improve. Able to prioritize and build product roadmap. Able to design new solutions and articulate/quantify the limitation of the solutions. 
4. Demand forecasting, create localized forecasts to improve in store availability. Proper model monitoring for early detection of potential issues in the forecast focusing particularly on improving the end user experience. 

ABOUT EPISOURCE:

Episource has devoted more than a decade in building solutions for risk adjustment to measure healthcare outcomes. As one of the leading companies in healthcare, we have helped numerous clients optimize their medical records, data, analytics to enable better documentation of care for patients with chronic diseases.

The backbone of our consistent success has been our obsession with data and technology. At Episource, all of our strategic initiatives start with the question - how can data be “deployed”? Our analytics platforms and datalakes ingest huge quantities of data daily, to help our clients deliver services. We have also built our own machine learning and NLP platform to infuse added productivity and efficiency into our workflow. Combined, these build a foundation of tools and practices used by quantitative staff across the company.

What’s our poison you ask? We work with most of the popular frameworks and technologies like Spark, Airflow, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ELK. For machine learning and NLP, we are big fans of keras, spacy, scikit-learn, pandas and numpy. AWS and serverless platforms help us stitch these together to stay ahead of the curve.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re looking to hire someone to help scale Machine Learning and NLP efforts at Episource. You’ll work with the team that develops the models powering Episource’s product focused on NLP driven medical coding. Some of the problems include improving our ICD code recommendations, clinical named entity recognition, improving patient health, clinical suspecting and information extraction from clinical notes.

This is a role for highly technical data engineers who combine outstanding oral and written communication skills, and the ability to code up prototypes and productionalize using a large range of tools, algorithms, and languages. Most importantly they need to have the ability to autonomously plan and organize their work assignments based on high-level team goals.

You will be responsible for setting an agenda to develop and ship data-driven architectures that positively impact the business, working with partners across the company including operations and engineering. You will use research results to shape strategy for the company and help build a foundation of tools and practices used by quantitative staff across the company.

During the course of a typical day with our team, expect to work on one or more projects around the following;

1. Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architectures for ML

2. Develop a strong API ecosystem for ML pipelines

3. Building CI/CD pipelines for ML deployments using Github Actions, Travis, Terraform and Ansible

4. Responsible to design and develop distributed, high volume, high-velocity multi-threaded event processing systems

5. Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations  

6. Deploying data pipelines in production using Infrastructure-as-a-Code platforms

7. Designing scalable implementations of the models developed by our Data Science teams  

8. Big data and distributed ML with PySpark on AWS EMR, and more!

BASIC REQUIREMENTS 

1.  Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science, IT or related fields
   
   

2.  Minimum of 5 years of experience in cloud, DevOps, MLOps & data projects
   
   

3. Strong experience with bash scripting, unix environments and building scalable/distributed systems
   
   

4. Experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent
   
   

5. Very strong experience with AWS and Python
   
   

6. Experience building CI/CD systems
   
   

7. Experience with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS or equivalent

8. Ability to build and manage application and performance monitoring processes

Desired Skills & Mindset:

We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated both a strong business sense and deep understanding of the quantitative foundations of modelling.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions

• Statistical programming software experience in SPSS and comfortable working with large data sets.

• R, Python, SAS & SQL are preferred but not a mandate

• Excellent time management skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills; understanding of both written and spoken English

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to act autonomously, bringing structure and organization to work

• Creative and action-oriented mindset

• Ability to interact in a fluid, demanding and unstructured environment where priorities evolve constantly, and methodologies are regularly challenged

• Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines

Qualifications and Experience:

• Graduate degree in: Statistics/Economics/Econometrics/Computer

Science/Engineering/Mathematics/MBA (with a strong quantitative background) or

equivalent

• Strong track record work experience in the field of business intelligence, market

research, and/or Advanced Analytics

• Knowledge of data collection methods (focus groups, surveys, etc.)

• Knowledge of statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, R, Python, or similar), databases,

and MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

• Industry experience in Consumer Experience/Healthcare a plus

Analytics Job Description

We are hiring an Analytics Engineer to help drive our Business Intelligence efforts. You will

partner closely with leaders across the organization, working together to understand the how

and why of people, team and company challenges, workflows and culture. The team is

responsible for delivering data and insights that drive decision-making, execution, and

investments for our product initiatives.

You will work cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, and our

customer-facing teams enabling them with data and narratives about the customer journey.

You’ll also work closely with other data teams, such as data engineering and product analytics,

to ensure we are creating a strong data culture at Blend that enables our cross-functional partners

to be more data-informed.

Role : DataEngineer 

Please find below the JD for the DataEngineer Role..

  Location: Guindy,Chennai

How you’ll contribute:

• Develop objectives and metrics, ensure priorities are data-driven, and balance short-

term and long-term goals

• Develop deep analytical insights to inform and influence product roadmaps and

business decisions and help improve the consumer experience

• Work closely with GTM and supporting operations teams to author and develop core

data sets that empower analyses

• Deeply understand the business and proactively spot risks and opportunities

• Develop dashboards and define metrics that drive key business decisions

• Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines via solutions such as Fivetran, Hightouch,

and Workato

• Design our Analytics and Business Intelligence architecture, assessing and

implementing new technologies that fitting

• Work with our engineering teams to continually make our data pipelines and tooling

more resilient

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required from an accredited institution with a

quantitative focus such as Economics, Operations Research, Statistics, Computer Science OR 1-3 Years of Experience as a Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist

• Must have strong SQL and data modeling skills, with experience applying skills to

thoughtfully create data models in a warehouse environment.

• A proven track record of using analysis to drive key decisions and influence change

• Strong storyteller and ability to communicate effectively with managers and

executives

• Demonstrated ability to define metrics for product areas, understand the right

questions to ask and push back on stakeholders in the face of ambiguous, complex

problems, and work with diverse teams with different goals

• A passion for documentation.

• A solution-oriented growth mindset. You’ll need to be a self-starter and thrive in a

dynamic environment.

• A bias towards communication and collaboration with business and technical

stakeholders.

• Quantitative rigor and systems thinking.

• Prior startup experience is preferred, but not required.

• Interest or experience in machine learning techniques (such as clustering, decision

tree, and segmentation)

• Familiarity with a scientific computing language, such as Python, for data wrangling

and statistical analysis

• Experience with a SQL focused data transformation framework such as dbt

• Experience with a Business Intelligence Tool such as Mode/Tableau

Mandatory Skillset:

-Very Strong in SQL

-Spark OR pyspark OR Python

-Shell Scripting

What you need to have:

Job Description: Data Scientist

At Propellor.ai, we derive insights that allow our clients to make scientific decisions. We believe in demanding more from the fields of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Business Logic. Combine these and we show our clients a 360-degree view of their business. In this role, the Data Scientist will be expected to work on Procurement problems along with a team-based across the globe.

We are a Remote-First Company.

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What will help you be successful in this role

• Articulate
• High Energy
• Passion to learn
• High sense of ownership
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment
• Loves technology
• Highly skilled at Data Interpretation
• Problem solver
• Ability to narrate the story to the business stakeholders
• Generate insights and the ability to turn them into actions and decisions

Skills to work in a challenging, complex project environment

• Need you to be naturally curious and have a passion for understanding consumer behavior
• A high level of motivation, passion, and high sense of ownership
• Excellent communication skills needed to manage an incredibly diverse slate of work, clients, and team personalities
• Flexibility to work on multiple projects and deadline-driven fast-paced environment
• Ability to work in ambiguity and manage the chaos

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze data to unlock insights: Ability to identify relevant insights and actions from data.  Use regression, cluster analysis, time series, etc. to explore relationships and trends in response to stakeholder questions and business challenges.   
• Bring in experience for AI and ML:  Bring in Industry experience and apply the same to build efficient and optimal Machine Learning solutions.
• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and Generate Insights: Analyse internal and external datasets using analytical techniques, tools, and visualization methods. Ensure pre-processing/cleansing of data and evaluate data points across the enterprise landscape and/or external data points that can be leveraged in machine learning models to generate insights. 
• DS and ML Model Identification and Training: Identity, test, and train machine learning models that need to be leveraged for business use cases. Evaluate models based on interpretability, performance, and accuracy as required. Experiment and identify features from datasets that will help influence model outputs.  Determine what models will need to be deployed, data points that need to be fed into models, and aid in the deployment and maintenance of models.

Technical Skills

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of them. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work, fast learners and are team players.

• Strong experience with machine learning and AI including regression, forecasting, time series, cluster analysis, classification, Image recognition, NLP, Text Analytics and Computer Vision.
• Strong experience with advanced analytics tools for Object-oriented/object function scripting using languages such as Python, or similar.
• Strong experience with popular database programming languages including SQL.
• Strong experience in Spark/Pyspark
• Experience in working in Databricks

What are the company benefits you get, when you join us as?

• Permanent Work from Home Opportunity
• Opportunity to work with Business Decision Makers and an internationally based team
• The work environment that offers limitless learning
• A culture void of any bureaucracy, hierarchy
• A culture of being open, direct, and with mutual respect
• A fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and provides the support and mentorship to help you grow
• The opportunity to work on high-impact business problems that are already defining the future of Marketing and improving real lives

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Whom will you work with?

You will closely work with other Senior Data Scientists and Data Engineers.

Immediate to 15-day Joiners will be preferred.