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AGM - Data Scientist

Job Req ID:  49790
Location: 

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Function:  Marketing/Digital
About: 

Vodafone Idea Limited is an Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group partnership. It is India’s leading telecom service provider. The Company provides pan India Voice and Data services across 2G, 3G and 4G platform. With the large spectrum portfolio to support the growing demand for data and voice, the company is committed to deliver delightful customer experiences and contribute towards creating a truly ‘Digital India’ by enabling millions of citizens to connect and build a better tomorrow. The Company is developing infrastructure to introduce newer and smarter technologies, making both retail and enterprise customers future ready with innovative offerings, conveniently accessible through an ecosystem of digital channels as well as extensive on-ground presence. The Company is listed on National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India.

 

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VIL's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our Values of Passion, Boldness, Trust, Speed and Digital. Consequently, our recruiting efforts are directed towards attracting and retaining best and brightest talents. Our endeavour is to be First Choice for prospective employees.

 

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VIL is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce.

 

 Role

Data Scientist

Job Level/ Designation

M2/AGM – Data Scientist

Years of Experience

2 - 7 years of relevant work experience

Function / Department

Big Data and Advanced Analytics - Marketing

Location

Mumbai Corporate

Reporting

VP – Big Data & Advanced Analytics, Marketing

Job Purpose

  1. Create business models to impact the revenue and ARPU of the customers using Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud technologies
  2. Hands on expertise in Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud technologies.
  3. Building key predictive models and analytics products across marketing verticals in the organization
  4. Find ways to combine large-scale experimentation, statistical-econometric, machine learning, deep learning and social-science methods to answer business questions at scale
  5. Use causal inference methods to design and suggest experiments and new ways to establish causality, assess attribution, and answer strategic questions using data.
  6. Work with large, complex data sets. Conduct end-to-end analyses that include data gathering and requirements specification, exploratory data analysis (EDA), model development, and written and verbal delivery of results to business partners and executives.
  7. Collaborate with BI, IT and product development teams
  8. Expertise in writing efficient, modularized and standardized code in python
  9. Experience of working with AWS tools and technologies-S3, EC2, EMR, Glue, Sagemaker, Lambda, Dynamo DB, RedShift, Quicksight
  10. In-depth understanding of Feature engineering and selection approaches, Segmentation or stratified analyses, anomaly detection, pattern detection and data transformation approaches. Classification; Machine/Deep Learning - Algorithm Evaluation, Dataset Preparation
  11. Assessing the Model accuracy both Statistical as well as Business evaluation (Target Group vs Control Group & overall adoption)
  12. Well versed with writing efficient SQL scripts for data acquisition and data aggregation
  13. Help suggest, support, and shape new data driven use cases on AI-ML

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

  1. Align dynamically & efficiently to organizational goals
  2. Help team-lead in achieving team’s revenue using AI/ML & cloud skills
  3. Building & Refine AI/ML approach and deploy model over a Cloud
  4. Achieve greater model lifts 
  5. Upskilling
  6. Compulsorily being Hands-on

Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience

 
  1. Proven expertise with a variety of Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques across structured and unstructured data sets
  2. Strong hands on proficiency in statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. Python, R, Spark, SQL, Visualization tools)
  3. Cloud Computing & Architectural Planning - AWS ( EC2, S3,EMR,etc)
  4. Deep Learning Frameworks: Caffe, Keras, Theano, Tensorflow, or Torch
  5. Experience working on Big Data technologies (e.g. Hadoop MR, Hive, NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, Graph Databases etc.)
  6. Experience in development of interactive dashboards or visualization Javascript and JavaScript libraries, ggplot, Shiny apps, etc.
  7. Self-Starter, Motivated, organize, and excellent communicator
  8. Ability to work in cross functional teams to translate business issues into potential analytics solutions
  9. Good Problem solving & Analytical Skills
  10. Quick learner and adapting to changing business needs

 

Must have technical / professional qualifications

 

1. Graduate or Master's degree or PHD in Statistics or Economics or Engineering or a quantitative discipline from top ranked universities with exposure to AI/ ML/ Data Mining

2. Any Certification in Machine Learning / Deep Learning - Artificial Intelligence / Data Science

3. Preferred Certifications in AI/ML and AWS Cloud

 

 

Vodafone Idea Limited (formerly Idea Cellular Limited)
An Aditya Birla Group & Vodafone partnership

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