Chennai, TN, India

Lead Data Scientist

 Job Description:

We are looking for Data Scienitist to lead a data science team to gain useful insight out of raw data for our client based in Chennai, India.

Responsibilities : 

  • You would be required to identify, develop and implement the appropriate statistical techniques, algorithms and Deep learning / ML Models to create new, scalable solutions that address business challenges across industry domains. 
  • Define, develop, maintain and evolve data models, tools and capabilities. 
  • Communicate your findings to the appropriate teams through visualizations. 
  • Collaborate and communicate findings to diverse stakeholders. 
  • Provide solutions for but not limited to : object detection/image recognition, natural language processing, sentiment analysis. topic modeling, concept extraction, recommender systems, text classification, clustering, customer segmentation & targeting and so on. 
  • Ability to build, train and lead a team of data scientists. 
  • Follow/maintain an agile methodology for delivering on project milestones. 
  • Working on ML Model Containerisation. 
  • Creating ML Model Interference Pipelines 
  • Testing and Monitoring ML Models. 


Requirements 

  • Should have strong Python programming knowledge - data science and advance concepts like abstract class, function overloading + overriding, inheritance, modular programming and reusability. 
  • Cloud Expereince in using Azure services. 
  • Bachelos/Masters/PhD degree in Math, Computer Science, Informations Systems. Machine learning statistics, Applied Mathematics or related technical degree. 
  • 6 plus years total experience with minimum of 3 years of expereince in a related position, as a senior data scientist building Predictive analytics, Computer Vision, and NLP solutions for various types of business problems. 
  • Advanced knowledge of statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms and deep learning frameworks lik Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch. 
  • Programming background and expertise in building models using atleast one of the following languages : Python, R

Note : Encourage only those candidates who are in India to apply for this position. The client requires the candidate to work from office and would prefer the candidate to be either in the same region or is willing to relocate. 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

  Required Skills:

Modeling Deep Learning Classification Pipelines Milestones Algorithms Data Science Machine Learning R Statistics Analytics Mathematics Programming Computer Science Python Testing Business Science