Business Development Associate

About Vijay Sales

Vijay Sales is one of India’s leading electronics retail brands with 160+ stores nationwide and a fast-growing digital presence. We are on a mission to build the most advanced data-driven retail intelligence ecosystem—using AI, predictive analytics, LLMs, and real-time automation to transform customer experience, supply chain, and omnichannel operations.

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly capable AI Engineer who is passionate about building production-grade AI systems, designing scalable ML architecture, and working with cutting-edge AI/ML tools. This role involves hands-on work with Databricks, SQL, PySpark, modern LLM/GenAI frameworks, and full lifecycle ML system design.

Key Responsibilities

Machine Learning & AI Development

• Build, train, and optimize ML models for forecasting, recommendation, personalization, churn prediction, inventory optimization, anomaly detection, and pricing intelligence.
• Develop GenAI solutions using modern LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace Transformers).
• Explore and implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines for product search, customer assistance, and support automation.
• Fine-tune LLMs on company-specific product and sales datasets (using QLoRA, PEFT, and Transformers).
• Develop scalable feature engineering pipelines leveraging Delta Lake and Databricks Feature Store.

Databricks / Data Engineering

• Build end-to-end ML workflows on Databricks using PySpark, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables.
• Optimize Databricks clusters for cost, speed, and stability.
• Maintain reusable notebooks and parameterized pipelines for model ingestion, validation, and deployment.
• Use MLflow for tracking experiments, model registry, and lifecycle management.

Data Handling & SQL

• Write advanced SQL for multi-source data exploration, aggregation, and anomaly detection.
• Work on large, complex datasets from ERP, POS, CRM, Website, and Supply Chain systems.
• Automate ingestion of streaming and batch data into Databricks pipelines.

Deployment & MLOps

• Deploy ML models using REST APIs, Databricks Model Serving, Docker, or cloud-native endpoints.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for ML using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Databricks Workflows.
• Implement model monitoring for drift, accuracy decay, and real-time alerts.
• Maintain GPU/CPU environments for training workflows.
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Must-Have Technical Skills

Core AI/ML

• Strong fundamentals in machine learning: regression, classification, time-series forecasting, clustering.
• Experience in deep learning using PyTorch or TensorFlow/Keras.
• Expertise in LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and GenAI architecture.
• Hands-on experience with HuggingFace, embedding models, and RAG.

Databricks & Big Data

• Hands-on experience with Databricks (PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, MLflow, Feature Store).
• Strong understanding of Spark execution, partitioning, and optimization.

Programming

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience writing high-performance SQL with window functions, CTEs, and analytical queries.
• Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, REST APIs, and Docker.

MLOps & Production Engineering

• Experience deploying models to production and monitoring them.
• Familiarity with tools like MLflow, Weights & Biases, or SageMaker equivalents.
• Experience in building automated training pipelines and handling model drift/feedback loops.

Preferred Domain Experience

• Retail/e-commerce analytics
• Demand forecasting
• Inventory optimization
• Customer segmentation & personalization
• Price elasticity and competitive pricing

Role Overview

As a Lead Data Scientist / Data Analyst, you’ll combine analytical thinking, business acumen, and technical expertise to design and deliver impactful data-driven solutions. You’ll lead analytical problem-solving for retail clients — from data exploration and visualisation to predictive modelling and actionable business insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand problems and translate them into analytical solutions.

• Lead end-to-end analytics projects — from hypothesis framing and data wrangling to insight delivery and model implementation.

• Drive exploratory data analysis (EDA), identify patterns/trends, and derive meaningful business stories from data.

• Design and implement statistical and machine learning models (e.g., segmentation, propensity, CLTV, price/promo optimisation).

• Build and automate dashboards, KPI frameworks, and reports for ongoing business monitoring.

• Collaborate with data engineering and product teams to deploy solutions in production environments.

• Present complex analyses in a clear, business-oriented way, influencing decision-making across retail categories.

• Promote an agile, experiment-driven approach to analytics delivery.

Common Use Cases You’ll Work On

• Customer segmentation (RFM, mission-based, behavioural)

• Price and promo effectiveness

• Assortment and space optimisation

• CLTV and churn prediction

• Store performance analytics and benchmarking

• Campaign measurement and targeting

• Category in-depth reviews and presentation to the L1 leadership team

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or consulting (preferably in the retail domain)

• Proven ability to connect business questions to analytical solutions and communicate insights effectively

• Strong SQL skills for data manipulation and querying large datasets

• Advanced Python for statistical analysis, machine learning, and data processing

• Intermediate PySpark / Databricks skills for working with big data

• Comfortable with data visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar)

• Knowledge of statistical techniques (Hypothesis testing, ANOVA, regression, A/B testing, etc.)

• Familiarity with agile project management tools (JIRA, Trello, etc.)

Good to Have

• Experience designing data pipelines or analytical workflows in cloud environments (Azure preferred)

• Strong understanding of retail KPIs (sales, margin, penetration, conversion, ATV, UPT, etc.)

• Prior exposure to Promotion or Pricing analytics 

• Dashboard development or reporting automation expertise

• Overall Synopsis (Skills to focus) 
• Brush up your skills in Photoshop & Illustrator
• Illustrator tools - Pen tool, Gradient, Pathfinder, Blending modes, type on a path, rotate and reflect, mesh tool, selection tool, etc.
• Photoshop tools – change the color of the background, remove a selection, pen tool etc. 
• Make sure to revise to recreate curves, and nodes smoothly while doing vectorization.
• Try making some logo designs, and work on the curves & texture.

This is a full-time WFH NIGHT SHIFT role.

The role is fully remote, but the client is conducting a drive on a given date and place.

19th, 20th April: Kolkata

Candidates who are not from Kolkata will attend the Virtual Interview Drive.

All the rounds will be online.

Job Overview: This position will play a pivotal role in driving the company's finance department functions. You will responsible for overseeing financial operations, strategic planning, and compliance within the company.

Required Experience & Skills:

• Hands-on experience with accounting software. Taking care of all books of accounts like Journals, Ledger,etc
• Experience with general ledger functions.
• Strong control over revenue through various means and channels and reconciliation
• Working knowledge of GST India provisions for input credit, HSN/SAC codes, tax rates, invoicing rules, GST monthly, Yearly filings, and 2B reconciliations.
• Day-to-day banking operations and fund planning & reporting to management.
• Preparing Bank Reconciliation revenue reconciliation
• Taking care of Vendors' bill approvals, advance, and payment.
• Working knowledge of provisions of TDS- different sections under which TDS is deducted, TDS returns, and various TDS rates. Experience in quarterly and year-end E-TDS filings.
• Statutory compliances, including verification, calculation payment & filing of return, e.g., GST, TDS, etc.
• Vendor Management. Creation of vendor registration, asset creation, and purchase. The primary point of contact for all vendor-related transactions.
• Possess strong work ethics and good interpersonal and communication (written & oral) skills.
• Good analytical skills, embrace challenges & changes, initiative and have a positive working attitude

Role and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all accounting matters such as AR, AP, GL to ensure the accounting books accurately reflect the company's financial position in accordance with GAAP/Ind-AS.
• Controlling Accounts Payable and Account Receivables.
• Responsible for implementing Finance Policies set by the management/Corporate Office.
• Company Vendor Management. Creation of vendor registration, asset creation, and purchase. The primary point of contact for all vendor-related transactions.
• Receivable and payable management, Liquidity management, and periodic cash flow management

Skills & Qualification:

Experience: 1-3 years in core accounting & finance 

Education: CA inter / M.com/ MBA / Graduate

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Location: Lower Parel

Job Type: Full-Time

• Associated with the Group President to drive operational efficiency and sustainable growth in the group entities.
• To prepare business plans and investor pitch decks as per client requirements.
• Analysed the cost effectiveness of the organization
• Designing the business models and roadmaps of various group entities Conducted research to analyse industry trends and fashioned valuable decks to bring forth a strategic direction for the entities.

Must skills:

Hands- on in the following:

• Java 8/J2EE
• Spring boot
• Gradle/Maven
• REST API
• ORM- hibernate/ JPA
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing- Junit/ TestNG

Good to have:

Hands-on in the following:

• CI/CD pipeline deployment
• Messaging- ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ/MQ
• DB2
• Kafka
• NoSQL framework exposure

• As a DevOps engineer, you will be responsible for
• Automated provisioning of infrastructure in AWS/Azure/OpenStack environments.
• Creation of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of projects.
• Proactive Monitoring of overall infrastructure (Logs/Resources etc)
• Deployment of application to various cloud environments.
• Should be able to lead/guide a team towards achieving goals and meeting the milestones defined.
• Practice and implement best practices in every aspect of project deliverable.
• Keeping yourself up to date with new frameworks and tools and enabling the team to use them.

Skills Required

• Experience in Automation of CI/CD processes using tools such as GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipeline, Gitlab
• Experience in working with AWS and Azure platforms and Cloud-Native automation tools such as AWS cloud formation and Azure Resource Manager.
• Experience in monitoring solutions such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus
• Web Server/Application Server deployments and administration.
• Good Communication, Team Handling, Problem-solving, Work Ethic, and Creativity.
• Work experience of at least 1 year in the following are mandatory.

If you do not have the relevant experience, please do not apply.

• Any cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Any of the configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Powershell DSC)
• Scripting languages (PHP, Python, Shell, Bash, etc.?
• Docker or Kubernetes
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.

This position is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case. 

Reporting to: PMO Lead

Job Location: Delhi NCR / Jaipur / Chennai

Experience Required: 10+ years

What You’ll Do

• Strong experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on time, on-schedule and within budget close
• Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance
• Strong experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall
• Strong experience on documentation – Confluence or similar tools.
• Define and document project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents
• Effectively communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Addressing issues, flag risks and jointly determine mitigation approaches.
• Experience in implementing complex applications with multiple work-streams across geographically distributed teams (Onshore/Offshore model).
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors or Masters Degree (preferred) in Business / Computer Science / Engineering / MBA
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Good listening skills.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Proficiency in MS Excel / Google Sheets, Google Slides / MS PowerPoint
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 

Good to have:

• PMP Certification / CSM Certification
• A background in hands-on software development
• A startup experience