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Senior Director – Strategy (Data & Analytics)

The client is a leading media agency who drive more strategic, creative and integrated media approach established to drive better business results. Their team is made up of best in class digital, offline, and integrated media experts who work together to enhance media's contribution to their client's business.

Responsibilities of the role:

We are looking for a talented Director to join our leadership team and manage the delivery of data engineering projects . In this role, you will be responsible to manage a team of highly skilled engineers, scientists and analysts to deliver data-driven solutions to exceed client goals. 

 As the Director, Data and Analytics, you will work with the agency and client to enable the data and tech solutions that lay the foundation for executing brand & performance marketing. 

• Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap to deliver cutting edge data, technology and analytics solutions across a portfolio of clients .
• Become a trusted advisor to clients and consult on growth opportunities and identify new way to use data to solve business challenges and support growth, 
• Support development and deployment of products and services across multiple cloud environments 
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of client leads, application developers, operations engineers, and architects to translate complex product requirements into technical specs and design requirements 
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in GroupM Data & Analytics, GroupM Engineering and agency data science and tech leads 
• Build & manage a team of experts in Data Strategy, Measurement/Business Analysts, Advanced Analytics, and Marketing Technology specialists to deliver best in class audience, measurement strategy in collaboration with Client, Strategy, and Investment teams. 

What you will need:

·      7+ years of experience in data analytics / quantitative research

• Proven thought-leadership, and a deep understanding of the data and technology issues facing the marketing industry
• Experience building, managing and inspiring large and diverse teams of data and technology specialists
• A proven track record in working with a diverse array of clients to solve complex problems and delivering demonstrable business success. Including (but not limited to) the development of compelling and sophisticated data strategies and AdTech / martech strategies to enable marketing objectives.

·      Master’s or Bachelor’s in Statistics, Mathematics or related quantitative field

Minimum of 8 years of experience of which, 4 years should be of applied data mining

experience in disciplines such as Call Centre Metrics.

 Strong experience in advanced statistics and analytics including segmentation, modelling, regression, forecasting etc.

 Experience with leading and managing large teams.

 Demonstrated pattern of success in using advanced quantitative analytic methods to solve business problems.

 Demonstrated experience with Business Intelligence/Data Mining tools to work with

data, investigate anomalies, construct data sets, and build models.

 Critical to share details on projects undertaken (preferably on telecom industry)

specifically through analysis from CRM.

Company Profile :

Merilytics, an Accordion company is a fast-growing analytics firm offering advanced a and intelligent analytical solutions to clients globally. We combine domain expertise, advanced analytics, and technology to provide robust solutions for clients' business problems. You can find further details about the company at https://merilytics.com.

We partner with our clients in Private Equity, CPG, Retail, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Logistics industries etc. by providing analytical solutions to generate superior returns. We solve clients' business problems by analyzing large amount of data to help guide their Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and much more.

Position :

- Business Associate at Merilytics will be working on complex analytical projects and is the primary owner of the work streams involved.

- The Business Associates are expected to lead the team of Business Analysts to deliver robust analytical solutions consistently and mentor the Analysts for professional development.

Location : Hyderabad

Roles and Responsibilities :

The roles and responsibilities of a Business Associate will include the below:

- Proactively provide thought leadership to the team and have complete control on the delivery process of the project.

- Understand the client's point of view and translate it into sound judgment calls in ambiguous analytical situations.

- Highlight potential analytical issues upfront and resolve them independently.

- Synthesizes the analysis and derives insights independently.

- Identify the crux of the client problem and leverage it to draw relevant actionable insights from the analysis/work.

- Ability to manage multiple Analysts and provide customized guidance for individual development.

- Resonate with our five core values - Client First, Excellence, Integrity, Respect and Teamwork.

Pre-requisites and skillsets required to apply for this role :

- Undergraduate degree (B.E/B.Tech.) from tier-1/tier-2 colleges are preferred.

- Should have 2-4 years of experience.

- Strong leadership & proactive communication to coordinate with the project team and other internal stakeholders.

- Ability to use business judgement and a structured approach towards solving complex problems.

- Experience in client-facing/professional services environment is a plus.

- Strong hard skills on analytics tools such as R, Python, SQL, and Excel is a plus.

Why Explore a Career at Merilytics :

- High growth environment: Semi-annual performance management and promotion cycles coupled with a strong meritocratic culture, enables fast track to leadership responsibility.

- Cross Domain Exposure: Interesting and challenging work streams across industries and domains that always keep you excited, motivated, and on your toes.

- Entrepreneurial Environment: Intellectual freedom to make decisions and own them. We expect you to spread your wings and assume larger responsibilities.

- Fun culture and peer group: Non-bureaucratic and fun working environment; Strong peer environment that will challenge you and accelerate your learning curve.

Other benefits for full time employees:

(i) Health and wellness programs that include employee health insurance covering immediate family members and parents, term life insurance for employees, free health camps for employees, discounted health services (including vision, dental) for employee and family members, free doctor's consultations, counselors, etc.

(ii) Corporate Meal card options for ease of use and tax benefits.

(iii) Work dinners, team lunches, company sponsored team outings and celebrations.

(iv) Reimbursement support for travel to the office, as and when promulgated by the Company.

(v) Cab reimbursement for women employees beyond a certain time of the day.

(vi) Robust leave policy to support work-life balance. Specially designed leave structure to support woman employees for maternity and related requests.

(vii) Reward and recognition platform to celebrate professional and personal milestones.

(viii) A positive & transparent work environment including various employee engagement and employee benefit initiatives to support personal and professional learning and development.

Cloudera Data Warehouse Hive team looking for a passionate senior developer to join our growing engineering team. This group is targeting the biggest enterprises wanting to utilize Cloudera’s services in a private and public cloud environment. Our product is built on open source technologies like Hive, Impala, Hadoop, Kudu, Spark and so many more providing unlimited learning opportunities.A Day in the LifeOver the past 10+ years, Cloudera has experienced tremendous growth making us the leading contributor to Big Data platforms and ecosystems and a leading provider for enterprise solutions based on Apache Hadoop. You will work with some of the best engineers in the industry who are tackling challenges that will continue to shape the Big Data revolution.  We foster an engaging, supportive, and productive work environment where you can do your best work. The team culture values engineering excellence, technical depth, grassroots innovation, teamwork, and collaboration.
You will manage product development for our CDP components, develop engineering tools and scalable services to enable efficient development, testing, and release operations.  You will be immersed in many exciting, cutting-edge technologies and projects, including collaboration with developers, testers, product, field engineers, and our external partners, both software and hardware vendors.Opportunity:Cloudera is a leader in the fast-growing big data platforms market. This is a rare chance to make a name for yourself in the industry and in the Open Source world. The candidate will responsible for Apache Hive and CDW projects. We are looking for a candidate who would like to work on these projects upstream and downstream. If you are curious about the project and code quality you can check the project and the code at the following link. You can start the development before you join. This is one of the beauties of the OSS world.Apache Hive

Responsibilities:

•Build robust and scalable data infrastructure software

•Design and create services and system architecture for your projects

•Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and code reviews

•The candidate would write Java code and/or build several services in the Cloudera Data Warehouse.

•Worked with a team of engineers who reviewed each other's code/designs and held each other to an extremely high bar for the quality of code/designs

•The candidate has to understand the basics of Kubernetes.

•Build out the production and test infrastructure.

•Develop automation frameworks to reproduce issues and prevent regressions.

•Work closely with other developers providing services to our system.

•Help to analyze and to understand how customers use the product and improve it where necessary. 

Qualifications:

•Deep familiarity with Java programming language.

•Hands-on experience with distributed systems.

•Knowledge of database concepts, RDBMS internals.

•Knowledge of the Hadoop stack, containers, or Kubernetes is a strong plus. 

•Has experience working in a distributed team.

•Has 3+ years of experience in software development.

In this role, we are looking for:

• A problem-solving mindset with the ability to understand business challenges and how to apply your analytics expertise to solve them.
• The unique person who can present complex mathematical solutions in a simple manner that most will understand, using data visualization techniques to tell a story with data.
• An individual excited by innovation and new technology and eager to finds ways to employ these innovations in practice.
• A team mentality, empowered by the ability to work with a diverse set of individuals.
• A passion for data, with a particular emphasis on data visualization.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Math, Statistics, Computer Science or related field with an emphasis on data analytics.
• 5+ Years professional experience, preferably in a data analyst / data scientist role or similar, with proven results in a data analyst role.
• 3+ Years professional experience in a leadership role guiding high-performing, data-focused teams with a track record of building and developing talent.
• Proficiency in your statistics / analytics / visualization tool of choice, but preferably in the Microsoft Azure Suite, including PowerBI and/or AzureML.