Tuesday, March 09, 2021

Sutherland Global Services - Senior Data Scientist - Investment Research (6-8 yrs) (Sutherland Global Services)

About Sutherland Research, Markets Insights, and Innovation (MII)

Sutherlands Research, Markets Insights, and Innovation (MII) division drives high impact transformation agenda to address our clients most complex issues from strategy development, incubation of new products or services, blitz-scaling operations, and digital transformation. Sutherland Research & MII practice has made significant investments in creating solutions that change the way actionable insights get delivered for strategic decision making across the organizations.

We partner with businesses to develop and deploy transformative AI analytics programs by offering consulting services to assess client data and digital platform readiness, Big Data Analytics suite of solutions and data engineering/ML workflow optimization. Our AI-Powered Analytics Approach enables organizations to unlock their market potential by enabling faster-contextualized decision making to improve business outcomes

Few examples of the incubated platforms & solutions include:

- Sutherland Cognitive Knowledge Engine: Intent-Based AI That Delivers Real-Time Results.

- Deal Analytics AI/ML driven platform to accelerates the deal evaluation process.

- ModelBoT - Sutherlands first Cognitive Computing Solution.

- Elevate.ai first of its kind Digital Experience Platform. Conversational AI + interactive surveys that provide and rich Consumer Insights.

Responsibilities

- Co-ordinate and manage data analytics activities with stakeholders

- Participate in all phases of datamining; data collection, data cleaning, developing models, validation, visualization and perform Gap analysis

- Assess data quality, identify gaps in the data and eliminate irrelevant data post gap analysis

- New dataset creation for portfolio companies from different form of raw data i.e., e-mails, PDFs, etc.

- Understand the business problems and analyze the data by using appropriate Statistical models to generate insights

- Proactively engage with new data vendors using a provided playbook as the face of Client. Also, evaluate the new data vendors on behalf of the client

- Build and analyze datasets using R, SAS, SQL, and Python

- Develop and implement predictive models using Natural Language Processing Techniques and machine learning algorithms such as linear regression, classification, multivariate regression, Naive Bayes, Random Forests, K-means clustering, KNN, PCA

- Design and develop Natural Language Processing models for sentiment analysis

- Apply clustering algorithms i.e., Hierarchical, K-means with help of Scikit and Scipy Python modules

- Develop visualizations and dashboards using ggplot, Tableau.

Skillsets :

A. Technical Skills:

- Programming Languages: Must possess 6-8 years working experience in R, SAS, SQL, Python. Knowledge in C++, Java, MATLAB, and PHP is an added advantage

- Platform: 3-4 years working experience in AWS, Databricks, Tableau, Airflow, MongoDB

- Data Management and Manipulation: Builds queries to extract the desired data, analyzes the data and creates accurate reports. Some standard tools for doing the same are SAS, Oracle Visual Analyzer, Microsoft Power BI, Cognos, Tableau, and more.

B. Practical Skills:

- Strong Mathematical Ability: Knowledge of statistics and the right comfort level with formulae / tables / charts / graphs required for analyzing data to provide real-world value

- High degree of expertise in using excel - Strong Domain Knowledge: Able to understand the specific user requirements, along with having a deep understanding of the data.

C. Soft Skills:

- Excellent Communication Skills is required to collaborate with the various stakeholders, including executives, IT specialists, to ensure that the data aligns well with the business objectives. Must be business savvy in dealing with salespeople / data providers

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Engineering, data analysis course/certification, degree in mathematics, statistics, or economics from a wellreputed University

- 6-8 years- experience in the field of Data analysis in investment research domain

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