Data Scientist

About The Company

 The client is 17-year-old Multinational Company headquartered in Bangalore, Whitefield, and having another delivery center in Pune, Hinjewadi. It also has offices in US and Germany and are working with several OEM’s and Product Companies in about 12 countries and is a 200+ strong team worldwide. 

The Role

Power BI front-end developer in the Data Domain (Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing, Purchasing, Logistics, …).Responsible for the Power BI front-end design, development, and delivery of highly visible data-driven applications in the Compressor Technique. You always take a quality-first approach where you ensure the data is visualized in a clear, accurate, and user-friendly manner. You always ensure standards and best practices are followed and ensure documentation is created and maintained. Where needed, you take initiative and make

recommendations to drive improvements. In this role you will also be involved in the tracking, monitoring and performance analysis

of production issues and the implementation of bugfixes and enhancements.

Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate has a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equal through experience.

• Strong knowledge on BI development principles, time intelligence, functions, dimensional modeling and data visualization is required.

• Advanced knowledge and 5-10 years experience with professional BI development & data visualization is preferred.

• You are familiar with data warehouse concepts.

• Knowledge on MS Azure (data lake, databricks, SQL) is considered as a plus.

• Experience and knowledge on scripting languages such as PowerShell and Python to setup and automate Power BI platform related activities is an asset.

• Good knowledge (oral and written) of English is required.

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

• Key responsibility is to design and develop a data pipeline including the architecture, prototyping, and development of data extraction, transformation/processing, cleansing/standardizing, and loading in Data Warehouse at real-time/near the real-time frequency. Source data can be structured, semi-structured, and/or unstructured format.
• Provide technical expertise to design efficient data ingestion solutions to consolidate data from RDBMS, APIs, Messaging queues, weblogs, images, audios, documents, etc of  Enterprise Applications, SAAS applications, external 3rd party sites or APIs, etc through ETL/ELT, API integrations, Change Data Capture, Robotic Process Automation, Custom Python/Java Coding, etc
• Development of complex data transformation using Talend (BigData edition), Python/Java transformation in Talend, SQL/Python/Java UDXs, AWS S3, etc to load in OLAP Data Warehouse in Structured/Semi-structured form
• Development of data model and creating transformation logic to populate models for faster data consumption with simple SQL.
• Implementing automated Audit & Quality assurance checks in Data Pipeline
• Document & maintain data lineage to enable data governance
• Coordination with BIU, IT, and other stakeholders to provide best-in-class data pipeline solutions, exposing data via APIs, loading in down streams, No-SQL Databases, etc

Requirements

• Programming experience using Python / Java, to create functions / UDX
• Extensive technical experience with SQL on RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgresql etc) including code optimization techniques
• Strong ETL/ELT skillset using Talend BigData Edition. Experience in Talend CDC & MDM functionality will be an advantage.
• Experience & expertise in implementing complex data pipelines, including semi-structured & unstructured data processing
• Expertise to design efficient data ingestion solutions to consolidate data from RDBMS, APIs, Messaging queues, weblogs, images, audios, documents, etc of  Enterprise Applications, SAAS applications, external 3rd party sites or APIs, etc through ETL/ELT, API integrations, Change Data Capture, Robotic Process Automation, Custom Python/Java Coding, etc
• Good understanding & working experience in OLAP Data Warehousing solutions (Redshift, Synapse, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica, etc) and cloud-native Data Lake (S3, ADLS, BigQuery, etc) solutions
• Familiarity with AWS tool stack for Storage & Processing. Able to recommend the right tools/solutions available to address a technical problem
• Good knowledge of database performance and tuning, troubleshooting, query optimization, and tuning
• Good analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data to design and deliver meaningful information
• Good knowledge of Design, Development & Performance tuning of 3NF/Flat/Hybrid Data Model
• Know-how on any No-SQL DB (DynamoDB, MongoDB, CosmosDB, etc) will be an advantage.
• Ability to understand business functionality, processes, and flows
• Good combination of technical and interpersonal skills with strong written and verbal communication; detail-oriented with the ability to work independently

Functional knowledge

• Data Governance & Quality Assurance
• Distributed computing
• Linux
• Data structures and algorithm
• Unstructured Data Processing

• Participate in full machine learning Lifecycle including data collection, cleaning, preprocessing to training models, and deploying them to Production.
• Discover data sources, get access to them, ingest them, clean them up, and make them “machine learning ready”. 
• Work with data scientists to create and refine features from the underlying data and build pipelines to train and deploy models. 
• Partner with data scientists to understand and implement machine learning algorithms. 
• Support A/B tests, gather data, perform analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your models. 
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and product engineers, and communicate results to peers and leaders. 
• Mentor junior team members 

Who we have in mind:

• Graduate in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering with 2+ years of direct experience in the machine learning field.
• Proficiency with SQL,  Python, Spark, and basic libraries such as Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas.
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or Keras
• Experience with Computer Vision (OpenCV),  NLP frameworks (NLTK, SpaCY, BERT).
• Basic knowledge of machine learning techniques (i.e. classification, regression, and clustering). 
• Understand machine learning principles (training, validation, etc.) 
• Strong hands-on knowledge of data query and data processing tools (i.e. SQL) 
• Software engineering fundamentals: version control systems (i.e. Git, Github) and workflows, and ability to write production-ready code. 
• Experience deploying highly scalable software supporting millions or more users 
• Experience building applications on cloud  (AWS or Azure) 
• Experience working in scrum teams with Agile tools like JIRA
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to explain complex concepts and technical material to non-technical users

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19

• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-

  after startups in India

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India

  by FastCompany.

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech

• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India

  program

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

   

  Role Summary

  Are you excited by the challenge and the opportunity of applying data-science and data- analytics techniques to the fast developing education technology domain? Do you look forward to, the sense of ownership and achievement that comes with innovating and creating data products from scratch and pushing it live into Production systems? Do you want to work with a team of highly motivated members who are on a mission to empower individuals through education?
  If this is you, come join us and become a part of the upGrad technology team. At upGrad the technology team enables all the facets of the business - whether it’s bringing efficiency to ourmarketing and sales initiatives, to enhancing our student learning experience, to empowering our content, delivery and student success teams, to aiding our student’s for their desired careeroutcomes. We play the part of bringing together data & tech to solve these business problems and opportunities at hand.
  We are looking for an highly skilled, experienced and passionate data-scientist who can come on-board and help create the next generation of data-powered education tech product. The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a Data Science role before wherein he/she is comfortable working with unknowns, evaluating the data and the feasibility of applying scientific techniques to business problems and products, and have a track record of developing and deploying data-science models into live applications. Someone with a strong math, stats, data-science background, comfortable handling data (structured+unstructured) as well as strong engineering know-how to implement/support such data products in Production environment.
  Ours is a highly iterative and fast-paced environment, hence being flexible, communicating well and attention-to-detail are very important too. The ideal candidate should be passionate about the customer impact and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across the company.

  
  Roles & Responsibilities

  • • 3+ years of experience in analytics, data science, machine learning or comparable role
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, Math/Statistics or related discipline 
    • Experience in building and deploying Machine Learning models in Production systems
    • Strong analytical skills: ability to make sense out of a variety of data and its relation/applicability to the business problem or opportunity at hand
    • Strong programming skills: comfortable with Python - pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib; Databases - SQL and noSQL
    • Strong communication skills: ability to both formulate/understand the business problem at hand as well as ability to discuss with non data-science background stakeholders 
    • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives

     

    Skills Required

    • Experience in Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing

    • Advanced degree in Data Science/Data Analytics or Math/Statistics

    • Comfortable with data-visualization tools and techniques

    • Knowledge of AWS and Data Warehousing

    • Passion for building data-products for Production systems - a strong desire to impact

      the product through data-science technique

Responsibilities:

• Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world.
• Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning.
• Able to adapt and work fast in producing the output which upgrades the decision making of stakeholders using ML.
• To design and develop Machine Learning systems and schemes. 
• To perform statistical analysis and fine-tune models using test results.
• To train and retrain ML systems and models as and when necessary. 
• To deploy ML models in production and maintain the cost of cloud infrastructure.
• To develop Machine Learning apps according to client and data scientist requirements.
• To analyze the problem-solving capabilities and use-cases of ML algorithms and rank them by how successful they are in meeting the objective.

Technical Knowledge:

• Worked with real time problems, solved them using ML and deep learning models deployed in real time and should have some awesome projects under his belt to showcase. 
• Proficiency in Python and experience with working with Jupyter Framework, Google collab and cloud hosted notebooks such as AWS sagemaker, DataBricks etc.
• Proficiency in working with libraries Sklearn, Tensorflow, Open CV2, Pyspark,  Pandas, Numpy and related libraries.
• Expert in visualising and manipulating complex datasets.
• Proficiency in working with visualisation libraries such as seaborn, plotly, matplotlib etc.
• Proficiency in Linear Algebra, statistics and probability required for Machine Learning.
• Proficiency in ML Based algorithms for example, Gradient boosting, stacked Machine learning, classification algorithms and deep learning algorithms. Need to have experience in hypertuning various models and comparing the results of algorithm performance.
• Big data Technologies such as Hadoop stack and Spark. 
• Basic use of clouds (VM’s example EC2).
• Brownie points for Kubernetes and Task Queues.      
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.