ML 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 Title:- Head of Analytics

Job Location:- Bangalore - On - site

 

About Qrata:

Qrata matches top talent with global career opportunities from the world’s leading digital companies including some of the world’s fastest growing start-ups using qrata’s talent marketplaces. To sign-up please visit Qrata Talent Sign-Up

 

We are currently scouting for Head of Analytics

 

Our Client Story:

Founded by a team of seasoned bankers with over 120 years of collective experience in banking, financial services and cards, encompassing strategy, operation, marketing, risk & technology, both in India and internationally.

We offer credit card processing Solution that can help you in effectively managing your credit card portfolio end-to-end. These solution are customized to meet the unique strategic, operational and compliance requirements of each bank.

1. Card Programs built for Everyone Limit assignment based on customer risk assessment & credit profiles including secured cards

2. Cards that can be used Everywhere. Through POS machines, UPI, E-Commerce websites

3. A Card for Everything Enable customer purchases, both large and small

4. Customized Card configurations Restrict usage based on merchant codes, location, amount limits etc

5. End-to-End Support We undertake the complete customer life cycle management right from KYC checks, onboarding, risk profiling, fraud control, billing and collections

6. Rewards Program Management We will manage the entire cards reward and customer loyalty programs for you

 

What you will do:

We are seeking an experienced individual for the role of Head of Analytics. As the Head of Analytics, you will be responsible for driving data-driven decision-making, implementing advanced analytics strategies, and providing valuable insights to optimize our credit card business operations, sales and marketing, risk management & customer experience. Your expertise in statistical analysis, predictive modelling, and data visualization will be instrumental in driving growth and enhancing the overall performance of our credit card business

 

Qualification:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Proven experience (7+ years) in leading analytics teams in the credit card industry
• Strong expertise in statistical analysis, predictive modelling, data mining, and segmentation techniques
• Proficiency in data manipulation and analysis using programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL
• Experience with analytics tools such as SAS, SPSS, or Tableau
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams
• Strong knowledge of credit card business and understanding of credit card industry dynamics, including risk management, marketing, and customer lifecycle
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex information to a varied audience

 

What you can expect:

1. Develop and implement Analytics Strategy:

o Define the analytics roadmap for the credit card business, aligning it with overall business objectives

o Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to track the performance of the credit card business

o Collaborate with senior management and cross-functional teams to prioritize and execute analytics initiatives

2. Lead Data Analysis and Insights:

o Conduct in-depth analysis of credit card data, customer behaviour, and market trends to identify opportunities for business growth and risk mitigation

o Develop predictive models and algorithms to assess credit risk, customer segmentation, acquisition, retention, and upsell opportunities

o Generate actionable insights and recommendations based on data analysis to optimize credit card product offerings, pricing, and marketing strategies

o Regularly present findings and recommendations to senior leadership, using data visualization techniques to effectively communicate complex information

3. Drive Data Governance and Quality:

o Oversee data governance initiatives, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across relevant systems and platforms

o Collaborate with IT teams to optimize data collection, integration, and storage processes to support advanced analytics capabilities

o Establish and enforce data privacy and security protocols to comply with regulatory requirements

4. Team Leadership and Collaboration:

o Build and manage a high-performing analytics team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning

o Provide guidance and mentorship to the team, promoting professional growth and development

o Collaborate with stakeholders across departments, including Marketing, Risk Management, and Finance, to align analytics initiatives with business objectives

5. Stay Updated on Industry Trends:

o Keep abreast of emerging trends, techniques, and technologies in analytics, credit card business, and the financial industry

o Leverage industry best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement in analytics methodologies and tools

 

For more Opportunities Visit: Qrata Opportunities.

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Design NLP applications
• Select appropriate annotated datasets for Supervised Learning methods
• Use effective text representations to transform natural language into useful features
• Find and implement the right algorithms and tools for NLP tasks
• Develop NLP systems according to requirements
• Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments
• Perform statistical analysis of results and refine models
• Extend ML libraries and frameworks to apply in NLP tasks
• Remain updated in the rapidly changing field of machine learning

 

What are we looking for:

• Proven experience as an NLP Engineer or similar role
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures, and modeling
• Ability to effectively design software architecture
• Deep understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-grams, a bag of words, sentiment analysis etc), statistics and classification algorithms
• Knowledge of Python, Java, and R
• Ability to write robust and testable code
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries (like sci-kit-learn)
• Strong communication skills
• An analytical mind with problem-solving abilities
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, or similar field

Work on the cutting edge FinTech landscape on problems of prediction and analytics.This position will work on internal and external data to draw insights into the bottomline for improving customer experience, credit decisioning and predictive maintainance of the platform.

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

Work-days: Sunday through Thursday
Work shift: Day time

•  Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.

• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data and draw
insights from large data sets.
• Experience in building ML pipelines with Apache Spark, Python
• Proficiency in implementing end to end Data Science Life cycle
• Experience in Model fine-tuning and advanced grid search techniques
• Experience working with and creating data architectures.
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural
networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions,
statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting, and other business outcomes.
• Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.

Key skills:
● Strong knowledge in Data Science pipelines with Python
● Object-oriented programming
● A/B testing framework and model fine-tuning
● Proficiency in using sci-kit, NumPy, and pandas package in python
Nice to have:
● Ability to work with containerized solutions: Docker/Compose/Swarm/Kubernetes
● Unit testing, Test-driven development practice
● DevOps, Continuous integration/ continuous deployment experience
● Agile development environment experience, familiarity with SCRUM
● Deep learning knowledge

Job Description for Data Scientist/ NLP Engineer

Responsibilities for Data Scientist/ NLP Engineer

Work with customers to identify opportunities for leveraging their data to drive business
solutions.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Basic data cleaning and annotation for any incoming raw data.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue
generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
• Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality.
• Deployment of ML model in production.
Qualifications for Junior Data Scientist/ NLP Engineer

• BS, MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 3+ Years of experience in Data Science/Machine Learning.
• Experience with programming language Python.
• Familiar with at least one database query language, such as SQL
• Knowledge of Text Classification & Clustering, Question Answering & Query Understanding,
Search Indexing & Fuzzy Matching.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating acrossteams.
• Willing to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Knowledge and experience in statistical and data mining techniques:
GLM/Regression, Random Forest, Boosting, Trees, text mining, NLP, etc.
• Experience with chatbots would be bonus but not required

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.

Telesourcia is a company who want to be a leader in the Big data , all around The Data (machine learning,data Analytics ,Data science etc.. at Madagascar , and we invite you to be part of this adventure