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Job Summary
Data Scientist – Job Description & Requirements
Daily work will include:
- Use various analytical techniques including visualization, statistical methods, machine learning/AI to create scalable solutions for business problems.
- Translate Supply Chain business problems and questions into specific quantitative questions to be answered w/ available data using robust methodologies. In many cases, the data collection at scale will be part of the task and may involve co-work with software development team.
- Analyze and extract relevant information from big data to help automate and optimize key processes.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
- Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches.
- Make business recommendations (e.g. cost-benefit, forecasting, experiment analysis) with effective presentations of findings to stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.
- Build scalable prototype analytics solutions.
- Work closely with software development/engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at scale.
Required background & skills:
- Bachelor/Master of Science degree in Data Science/Mathematics/Supply Chain/Operations Research with 3-5 years of relevant work
- Strong demonstrated knowledge of applied statistical and machine learning methods
- Strong knowledge of R and/or Python is required
- Experience with SQL and working with relational & non-relational databases (SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, MongoDB etc.)
- Experience with XML, JSON data formats, working with REST API’s, SVN/Git or other version control tools and techniques
- Effective written and oral communication skills in English, team player
Additional advantages will be:
- Work experience in Supply Chain/Manufacturing
- Be able to present quantitative results in the right context to various target audiences
- Demonstrated capability in building scalable analytical solutions
- Portfolio of data science projects on Github.com, RPubs.com etc.
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Demonstrated background in programming in C++, Java
Job Category
Operational Excellence
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