Data Science Intern

Description of Role

• We are looking for an enthusiastic analytically minded data driven BI Consultant/Developer role in Mumbai based Data & Analytics team
• The Business Intelligence consultant/developer is a member of the analytics team whose focus is to provide hands-on consulting and
• · Understand and document the reporting business requirements, processes and workflows developing both written and visual depictions of requirements and process flows.
• · Work closely with BI product manager & lead dashboard design and information presentation ideation meetings with business stakeholders. 
• Works extensively in Tableau Desktop, MS Power BI designing and building highly customized dashboards to provide stunning visual anal build assets like datasets, reports and dashboards using tools like Tableau, Powerbi & dataiku for internal customers within investment (Performance, Marketing, Sales etc.)

Key responsibilities

• · Builds Tableau/Power BI Data Models utilizing best practices, ensures data accuracy and ability to blend with other certified data sources.
• · Understand Analytics & Business Intelligence framework and partner with Analytics Technology & Enterprise reporting Technology team to build & deploy reports and dashboards.
• · Evaluate data sources and technology options, recommend appropriate solutions.
• · Build and maintain a reporting data dictionary and data lineage.
• · Perform data analysis, data mapping, and develop ad hoc queries.
• · Write SQL queries, stored procedures, and scripts, ETL jobs.
• · Perform QA testing of developed deliverables and assist with User Acceptance Testing
• · Manage the prioritization, logging and tracking of user related issues, defects, enhancements, and work requests.

Experience and Skills

• · Analytic and data driven mindset with a finesse to build dashboards that tell a story.
• · Strong communication skills, interacting effectively with quantitative colleagues as well as less technical audiences.       
• · Minimum of 5 years of proven experience creating Dashboards, Reports and Visualizations with interactive capabilities.
• · Minimum of 5 years’ experience in business/data analysis and data preparation
• · Minimum 2 years of experience in working with big data & building data apps using Python.
• · Broad industry knowledge of investment management a plus
• · Excellent verbal and writing skills in English.
• · Excellent time management and ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• · Maintain a strong commitment to quality. 

Responsibilities

Researches, develops and maintains machine learning and statistical models for

business requirements

Work across the spectrum of statistical modelling including supervised,

unsupervised, & deep learning techniques to apply the right level of solution to

the right problem Coordinate with different functional teams to monitor outcomes and refine/

improve the machine learning models Implements models to uncover patterns and predictions creating business value and innovation

Identify unexplored data opportunities for the business to unlock and maximize

the potential of digital data within the organization

Develop NLP concepts and algorithms to classify and summarize structured/unstructured text data

Qualifications

3+ years of experience solving complex business problems using machine

learning.

Fluency in programming languages such as Python, NLP and Bert, is a must

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

Experience in building production quality models using state-of-the-art technologies 

Familiarity with databases .

desirable Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required.

Previous experience in Fintech/payments domain is a bonus

You should have Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics

or Mathematics or another quantitative field from a top tier Institute

Job Responsibilities:

Excellent problem solving and analytical skills - ability to develop hypotheses,

understand and interpret data within the context of the product / business -

solve problems and distill data into actionable recommendations.

 Strong communication skills with the ability to confidently work with cross-

functional teams across the globe and to present information to all levels of the

organization.

 Intellectual and analytical curiosity - initiative to dig into the why, what & how.

 Strong number crunching and quantitative skills.

 Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint.

 Good hands on SQL

 Experience with in Google Analytics, Optimize, Tag Manager and other Google Suite tools

 Understanding of Business analytics tools & statistical programming languages - R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau is a plus

 Inherent interest in e-commerce & marketplace technology platforms and

broadly in the consumer Internet & mobile space.

 Previous experience of 1+ years working in a product company in

a product analytics role

 Strong understanding of building and interpreting product funnels.

Perquisites & Benefits:

 Opportunity to work with India's no.1 crowdfunding platform

 Be a part of a young, smart and rapidly growing team with management from Ivy League and Premier colleges

 Competitive compensation and incentives

 Fun, casual, relaxed and flexible work environment

About Us:

We are a VC-funded startup solving one of the biggest transportation problems India faces. Most passengers in India travel long distance by IRCTC trains. At time of booking, approx 1 out of every 2 passengers end up with a Waitlisted or RAC ticket. This creates a lot of anxiety for passengers, as Railway only announces only 4 hour before departure if they have a confirmed seat. We solve this problem through our Waitlist & RAC Protection. Protection can be bought against each IRCTC ticket at time of booking. If train ticket is not confirmed, we fly the passenger to the destination. Our team consists of 3 Founders from IIT, IIM and ISB.

Functional Experience:

• Computer Science or IT Engineering background with solid understanding of basics of Data Structures and Algorithms
• 2+ years of data science experience working with large datasets
• Expertise in Python packages like pandas, numPy, sklearn, matplotlib, seaborn, keras and tensorflow
• Expertise in Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra and PostgreSQL
• Expertise in Cloud computing on AWS with EC2, AutoML, Lambda and RDS
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning and Statistical time series analysis (optional)
• Unparalleled logical ability making you the go to guy for all things related to data
• You love coding like a hobby and are up for a challenge!

Cultural:

• Assume a strong sense of ownership of analytics : Design, develop & deploy
• Collaborate with senior management, operations & business team
• Ensure Quality & sustainability of the architecture
• Motivation to join an early stage startup should go beyond compensation

• Design the architecture of our big data platform
• Perform and oversee tasks such as writing scripts, calling APIs, web scraping, and writing SQL queries
• Design and implement data stores that support the scalable processing and storage of our high-frequency data
• Maintain our data pipeline
• Customize and oversee integration tools, warehouses, databases, and analytical systems
• Configure and provide availability for data-access tools used by all data scientists

  Strong knowledge in statistical and data mining techniques: GLM/Regression, Random Forest, Boosting, Trees, text mining, etc. 

 Sound Knowlegde querying databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SQL, etc. 

 Strong understanding creating and using advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics: regression, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, etc.