Data Scientist

Key Roles/Responsibilities: –

• Develop an understanding of business obstacles, create

• solutions based on advanced analytics and draw implications for

• model development

• Combine, explore and draw insights from data. Often large and

• complex data assets from different parts of the business.

• Design and build explorative, predictive- or prescriptive

• models, utilizing optimization, simulation and machine learning

• techniques

• Prototype and pilot new solutions and be a part of the aim

• of ‘productifying’ those valuable solutions that can have impact at a

• global scale

• Guides and coaches other chapter colleagues to help solve

• data/technical problems at an operational level, and in

• methodologies to help improve development processes

• Identifies and interprets trends and patterns in complex data sets to

• enable the business to take data-driven decisions

Job Details:-

Designation - Data Scientist

Urgently required. (NP of maximum 15 days)

Location:- Mumbai

Experience:- 5-7 years.

Package Offered:- Rs.5,00,000/- to Rs.9,00,000/- pa.

Data Scientist

Job Description:-

Responsibilities:

• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
• Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
• Combine models through ensemble modeling
• Present information using data visualization techniques
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Experience in data mining
• Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
• Knowledge of R, SQL and Python; familiarity with Scala, Java is an asset
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)
• Analytical mind and business acumen
• Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or other quantitative field is preferred

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent.

• In-depth knowledge of machine learning algorithms and their applications including practical experience with and theoretical understanding of algorithms for classification, regression and clustering.
• Hands-on experience in computer vision and deep learning projects to solve real world problems involving vision tasks such as object detection, Object tracking, instance segmentation, activity detection, depth estimation, optical flow, multi-view geometry, domain adaptation etc.
• Strong understanding of modern and traditional Computer Vision Algorithms.
• Experience in one of the Deep Learning Frameworks / Networks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Darknet(YOLO v4 v5), U-Net, Mask R-CNN, EfficientDet,BERT etc.
• Proficiency with CNN architectures such as ResNet, VGG, UNet, MobileNet, pix2pix, and CycleGAN.
• Experienced user of libraries such as OpenCV, scikit-learn, matplotlib and pandas.
• Ability to transform research articles into working solutions to solve real-world problems.
• High proficiency in Python programming knowledge.
• Familiar with software development practices/pipelines (DevOps- Kubernetes, docker containers, CI/CD tools).
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 2 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with the client timezone.  Typically clients are in the California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Use data to develop machine learning models that optimize decision making in Credit Risk, Fraud, Marketing, and Operations
• Implement data pipelines, new features, and algorithms that are critical to our production models
• Create scalable strategies to deploy and execute your models
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes.
• Undertake to preprocess of structured and unstructured data.
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns.

Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in applied data science or engineering with a focus on machine learning
• Python expertise with good knowledge of machine learning libraries, tools, techniques, and frameworks (e.g. pandas, sklearn, xgboost, lightgbm, logistic regression, random forest classifier, gradient boosting regressor etc)
• strong quantitative and programming skills with a product-driven sensibility

What you will be doing:

As a part of the Global Credit Risk and Data Analytics team, this person will be responsible for carrying out analytical initiatives which will be as follows: -

• Dive into the data and identify patterns
• Development of end-to-end Credit models and credit policy for our existing credit products
• Leverage alternate data to develop best-in-class underwriting models
• Working on Big Data to develop risk analytical solutions
• Development of Fraud models and fraud rule engine
• Collaborate with various stakeholders (e.g. tech, product) to understand and design best solutions which can be implemented
• Working on cutting-edge techniques e.g. machine learning and deep learning models

Example of projects done in past:

• Lazypay Credit Risk model using CatBoost modelling technique ; end-to-end pipeline for feature engineering and model deployment in production using Python
• Fraud model development, deployment and rules for EMEA region

Basic Requirements:

• 1-3 years of work experience as a Data scientist (in Credit domain)
• 2016 or 2017 batch from a premium college (e.g B.Tech. from IITs, NITs, Economics from DSE/ISI etc)
• Strong problem solving and understand and execute complex analysis
• Experience in at least one of the languages - R/Python/SAS and SQL
• Experience in in Credit industry (Fintech/bank)
• Familiarity with the best practices of Data Science

Add-on Skills : 

• Experience in working with big data
• Solid coding practices
• Passion for building new tools/algorithms
• Experience in developing Machine Learning models