Jr Data Scientist

Sciera Inc. is an Atlanta based Data & Technology company with 12 years’ experience of driving business results of Fortune 500 companies with unparalleled computing power and advanced data science capabilities. Sciera is focused on how we deal with petabyte-scale data and our applications' ability to respond to consumers in milliseconds. As a result, our technologies and solutions assist businesses in turning Big Data into actionable insights — and insights into business success.

At Sciera, our employees and their families are important to us. We seek individuals who are self-motivated, dependable, and who are equally productive while working alone or in a group. We expect candidates to contribute to the culture, diversity, and autonomy in which we thrive.

So, if you love challenges, a fast paced environment and being on the cutting edge of technology - this could very well be the opportunity for you.

Job Location: Chennai

Job Description 1-3 years of experience

We are looking for a Data Scientist to analyze large amounts of raw data to find patterns that will help improve our client’s business processes. We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights.In this role, you should be highly analytical with a flair for analysis, math/statistics and AIML.Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research. Your goal will be to help our clients analyze trends to make better decisions and develop new data products to serve our clients better.

Roles and 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 and skills
• Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Data management for analytics
• Experience in data mining and text mining
• Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
• Analytical mind and business acumen
• Strong math skills (specifically applied statistics, algebra)
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Knowledge of Tools:
• Knowledge of R, SQL and Python
• Experience with at least two of the major frameworks – Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet,
• Sagemaker, H2O, SparkML
• Familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g.
• Hadoop)
• Should have completed models in customer life cycle and/or NLP

Educational Qualifications:
• Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field or master degree in computer applications, Statistics, Operations research
• Master degree in Data Science or other quantitative field is preferred

Experience
• Should have a 1-3 years of experience in analytics/data science in marketing/customer
• analytics and NLP.