Data Engineer

Job Title – Data Scientist (Forecasting)

Anicca Data is seeking a Data Scientist (Forecasting) who is motivated to apply his/her/their skill set to solve complex and challenging problems. The focus of the role will center around applying deep learning models to real-world applications.  The candidate should have experience in training, testing deep learning architectures.  This candidate is expected to work on existing codebases or write an optimized codebase at Anicca Data. The ideal addition to our team is self-motivated, highly organized, and a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to learn quickly and work independently.

Job Location: Remote (for time being) and Bangalore, India (post-COVID crisis)

• At least 3+ years of experience in a Data Scientist role
• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline. D. will add merit to the application process
• Experience with large data sets, big data, and analytics
• Exposure to statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning. Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of deep learning, machine learning, statistics, probability, time series forecasting
• Training Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in areas of forecasting and prediction
• Experience in developing and deploying machine learning solutions in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for production systems
• Research and enhance existing in-house, open-source models, integrate innovative techniques, or create new algorithms to solve complex business problems
• Experience in translating business needs into problem statements, prototypes, and minimum viable products
• Experience managing complex projects including scoping, requirements gathering, resource estimations, sprint planning, and management of internal and external communication and resources
• Write C++ and Python code along with TensorFlow, PyTorch to build and enhance the platform that is used for training ML models

Preferred Experience

• Worked on forecasting projects – both classical and ML models
• Experience with training time series forecasting methods like Moving Average (MA) and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) with Neural Networks (NN) models as Feed-forward NN and Nonlinear Autoregressive
• Strong background in forecasting accuracy drivers
• Experience in Advanced Analytics techniques such as regression, classification, and clustering
• Ability to explain complex topics in simple terms, ability to explain use cases and tell stories

Job Description-

Responsibilities:

* Work on real-world computer vision problems

* Write robust industry-grade algorithms

* Leverage OpenCV, Python and deep learning frameworks to train models.

* Use Deep Learning technologies such as Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch etc.

* Develop integrations with various in-house or external microservices.

* Must have experience in deployment practices (Kubernetes, Docker, containerization, etc.) and model compression practices

* Research latest technologies and develop proof of concepts (POCs).

* Build and train state-of-the-art deep learning models to solve Computer Vision related problems, including, but not limited to:

* Segmentation

* Object Detection

* Classification

* Objects Tracking

* Visual Style Transfer

* Generative Adversarial Networks

* Work alongside other researchers and engineers to develop and deploy solutions for challenging real-world problems in the area of Computer Vision

* Develop and plan Computer Vision research projects, in the terms of scope of work including formal definition of research objectives and outcomes

* Provide specialized technical / scientific research to support the organization on different projects for existing and new technologies

Skills:

* Object Detection

* Computer Science

* Image Processing

* Computer Vision

* Deep Learning

* Artificial Intelligence (AI)

* Pattern Recognition

* Machine Learning

* Data Science

* Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

* Flask

* SQL

The role is with a Fintech Credit Card company based in Pune within the Decision Science team. (OneCard )

About

Credit cards haven't changed much for over half a century so our team of seasoned bankers, technologists, and designers set out to redefine the credit card for you - the consumer. The result is OneCard - a credit card reimagined for the mobile generation. OneCard is India's best metal credit card built with full-stack tech. It is backed by the principles of simplicity, transparency, and giving back control to the user.

The Engineering Challenge

“Re-imaging credit and payments from First Principles”

Payments is an interesting engineering challenge in itself with requirements of low latency, transactional guarantees, security, and high scalability. When we add credit and engagement into the mix, the challenge becomes even more interesting with underwriting and recommendation algorithms working on large data sets. We have eliminated the current call center, sales agent, and SMS-based processes with a mobile app that puts the customers in complete control. To stay agile, the entire stack is built on the cloud with modern technologies.

Purpose of Role :

- Develop and implement the collection analytics and strategy function for the credit cards. Use analysis and customer insights to develop optimum strategy.

CANDIDATE PROFILE :

- Successful candidates will have in-depth knowledge of statistical modelling/data analysis tools (Python, R etc.), techniques. They will be an adept communicator with good interpersonal skills to work with senior stake holders in India to grow revenue primarily through identifying / delivering / creating new, profitable analytics solutions.

We are looking for someone who:

- Proven track record in collection and risk analytics preferably in Indian BFSI industry. This is a must.

- Identify & deliver appropriate analytics solutions

- Experienced in Analytics team management

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

- Responsible for delivering high quality analytical and value added services

- Responsible for automating insights and proactive actions on them to mitigate collection Risk.

- Work closely with the internal team members to deliver the solution

- Engage Business/Technical Consultants and delivery teams appropriately so that there is a shared understanding and agreement as to deliver proposed solution

- Use analysis and customer insights to develop value propositions for customers

- Maintain and enhance the suite of suitable analytics products.

- Actively seek to share knowledge within the team

- Share findings with peers from other teams and management where required

- Actively contribute to setting best practice processes.

Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications :

Knowledge :

- Good understanding of collection analytics preferably in Retail lending industry.

- Knowledge of statistical modelling/data analysis tools (Python, R etc.), techniques and market trends

- Knowledge of different modelling frameworks like Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Multiple Regression, LOGIT, PROBIT, time- series modelling, CHAID, CART etc.

- Knowledge of Machine learning & AI algorithms such as Gradient Boost, KNN, etc.

- Understanding of decisioning and portfolio management in banking and financial services would be added advantage

- Understanding of credit bureau would be an added advantage

Experience :

- 4 to 8 years of work experience in core analytics function of a large bank / consulting firm.

- Experience on working on Collection analytics is must

- Experience on handling large data volumes using data analysis tools and generating good data insights

- Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas and analysis results effectively both verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences

- Excellent communication, presentation and writing skills Strong interpersonal skills

- Motivated to meet and exceed stretch targets

- Ability to make the right judgments in the face of complexity and uncertainty

- Excellent relationship and networking skills across our different business and geographies

Qualifications :

- Masters degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Business Management or Engineering from a reputed college

What we look for: 

We are looking for an associate who will be doing data crunching from various sources and finding the key points from the data. Also help us to improve/build new pipelines as per the requests. Also, this associate will be helping us to visualize the data if required and find flaws in our existing algorithms. 

Responsibilities: 

• Work with multiple stakeholders to gather the requirements of data or analysis and take action on them. 
• Write new data pipelines and maintain the existing pipelines. 
• Person will be gathering data from various DB’s and will be finding the required metrics out of it. 

Required Skills: 

• Experience with python and Libraries like Pandas,and Numpy. 
• Experience in SQL and understanding of NoSQL DB’s. 
• Hands-on experience in Data engineering. 
• Must have good analytical skills and knowledge of statistics. 
• Understanding of Data Science concepts. 
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field. 
• Problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure. 

Nice to have: 

• Experience in MongoDB or any NoSql DB. 
• Experience in ElasticSearch. 
• Knowledge of Tableau, Power BI or any other visualization tool.

Job Overview

                         We are looking for a ML Architect to help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our products. They must have strong experience using variety of data mining and data analysis methods, building and implementing models, using/creating algorithm’s and creating/running simulations.  They must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams. The right candidate will have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with stakeholders to improve business outcomes. Automating to identify the textual data with their properties and structure form various type of document.

Responsibilities

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Secure and manage when needed GPU cluster resources for events
• Write comprehensive internal feedback reports and find opportunities for improvements
• Manage GPU instances/machines to increase the performance and efficiency of the ML/DL model.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong Hands-on experience in Python Programming
• Working experience with Computer Vision models - Object Detection Model, Image Classification
• Good experience in feature extraction, feature selection techniques and transfer learning
• Working Experience in building deep learning NLP Models for text classification, image analytics-CNN,RNN,LSTM.
• Working Experience in any of the AWS/GCP cloud platforms, exposure in fetching data from various sources.
• Good experience in exploratory data analysis, data visualisation, and other data preprocessing techniques.
• Knowledge in any one of the DL frameworks like Tensorflow, Pytorch, Keras, Caffe
• Good knowledge in statistics,distribution of data and in supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
• Exposure to OpenCV Familiarity with GPUs + CUDA
• Experience with NVIDIA software for cluster management and provisioning such as nvsm, dcgm and DeepOps.
• We are looking for a candidate with 14+ years of experience, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, AWS-Sagemaker(Added advantage)
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages in any: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.