Data Analytics

Minimum of 8 years of experience of which, 4 years should be of applied data mining

experience in disciplines such as Call Centre Metrics.

 Strong experience in advanced statistics and analytics including segmentation, modelling, regression, forecasting etc.

 Experience with leading and managing large teams.

 Demonstrated pattern of success in using advanced quantitative analytic methods to solve business problems.

 Demonstrated experience with Business Intelligence/Data Mining tools to work with

data, investigate anomalies, construct data sets, and build models.

 Critical to share details on projects undertaken (preferably on telecom industry)

specifically through analysis from CRM.

Someone who has prior experience in Product Analytics/Marketing Analytics/Growth Analytics/Consumer analytics domain.

Has the ability to define success metrics for different initiatives or campaigns, drive ROI analysis & provide recommendations.

Strong analytics acumen and problem solving skills.

Good understanding of Clickstream/App events data, ability to build and understand user journeys across platforms.

Understanding of LTV modelling

Strong SQL skills and comfortable with python programming.

Basic knowledge of different regression models & clustering techniques.

• Perform qualitative and quantitative research and consultation on relative markets
• Keep up-to-date knowledge of the industry and related markets being researched
• Understand the needs of the hiring organization or client in order to target research to their benefit
• Contact companies and agencies who can provide useful financial data
• Create clear and useful reports and recommendations for organizational use
• Communicate with business leaders, financial officers and market representatives
• Interpret markets to conclude financial recommendations for clients
• Advise businesses to buy or sell products based on market insights

• Possess strong domain knowledge - Digital Analytics (Google Analytics, App Analytics (Firebase/AppsFlyer/Branch/MixPanel), CRO, Media Analytics 

• Ability to handle Google Analytics clients end-to-end  

• Contribute to building effective process management, mentoring teammates, reducing product & execution inefficiencies 

• Be responsible for day-to-day Google Analytics operations and performance of client accounts, requiring interaction with both internal and external stakeholders.   

• Own, manage and grow digital analytics strategies for clients.   

• Be responsible for all regular (and ad hoc) reporting and analysis of digital activity providing crucial insights, and effectively communicating this to the client.   

We are looking for an outstanding Big Data Engineer with experience setting up and maintaining Data Warehouse and Data Lakes for an Organization. This role would closely collaborate with the Data Science team and assist the team build and deploy machine learning and deep learning models on big data analytics platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new integrations and processes required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using 'Big Data' technologies.
• Develop programs in Scala and Python as part of data cleaning and processing.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization.  
• Responsible to design and develop distributed, high volume, high velocity multi-threaded event processing systems.
• Implement processes and systems to validate data, monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide high operational excellence guaranteeing high availability and platform stability.
• Closely collaborate with the Data Science team and assist the team build and deploy machine learning and deep learning models on big data analytics platforms.

Skills:

• Experience with Big Data pipeline, Big Data analytics, Data warehousing.
• Experience with SQL/No-SQL, schema design and dimensional data modeling.
• Strong understanding of Hadoop Architecture, HDFS ecosystem and eexperience with Big Data technology stack such as HBase, Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce.
• Experience in designing systems that process structured as well as unstructured data at large scale.
• Experience in AWS/Spark/Java/Scala/Python development.
• Should have Strong skills in PySpark (Python & SPARK). Ability to create, manage and manipulate Spark Dataframes. Expertise in Spark query tuning and performance optimization.
• Experience in developing efficient software code/frameworks for multiple use cases leveraging Python and big data technologies.
• Prior exposure to streaming data sources such as Kafka.
• Should have knowledge on Shell Scripting and Python scripting.
• High proficiency in database skills (e.g., Complex SQL), for data preparation, cleaning, and data wrangling/munging, with the ability to write advanced queries and create stored procedures.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra / MongoDB.
• Solid experience in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle - plan, design, develop, test, release, maintain and support, decommission.
• Experience with DevOps tools (GitHub, Travis CI, and JIRA) and methodologies (Lean, Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development).
• Experience building and deploying applications on on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Having a good understanding of machine learning landscape and concepts. 

Qualifications and Experience:

Engineering and post graduate candidates, preferably in Computer Science, from premier institutions with proven work experience as a Big Data Engineer or a similar role for 3-5 years.

Certifications:

Good to have at least one of the Certifications listed here:

    AZ 900 - Azure Fundamentals

    DP 200, DP 201, DP 203, AZ 204 - Data Engineering

    AZ 400 - Devops Certification

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We're looking for someone with strong analytical capabilities who wants to understand how our current architecture and algorithms work, and help us design and develop long lasting solutions to address those. Depending on the needs of the day, the role will come with a good mix of team-work, following our best practices, introducing us to industry best practices, independent thinking, and ownership of your work.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and enhance our pricing algorithms to enable new capabilities.
• Process, analyze, model, and visualize findings from our market level supply and demand data.
• Build and enhance internal and customer facing dashboards to better track metrics and trends that help customers use PriceLabs in a better way.
• Take ownership of product ideas and design discussions.
• Occasional travel to conferences to interact with prospective users and partners, and learn where the industry is headed.

Requirements:

• Bachelors, Masters or Ph. D. in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other quantitative/engineering fields.
• Strong understanding of analysis of algorithms, data structures and statistics.
• Solid programming experience. Including being able to quickly prototype an idea and test it out.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability and willingness to explain complicated algorithms and concepts in simple terms.
• Experience with relational databases and strong knowledge of SQL.
• Experience building data heavy analytical models in the travel industry.
• Experience in the vacation rental industry.
• Experience developing dynamic pricing models.
• Prior experience working at a fast paced environment.
• Willingness to wear many hats.