Company: Edelweiss
Location: Mumbai, India
Web: www.edelweissfin.com
Position: Data Scientist

_Contact_:
Email to Aakash.gupta@edelweissfin.com.

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Job Purpose

• The role is for building, validating and deploying machine learning models on unstructured data for various business problems
• Provide support as technical expert for business ideation & hypothesis generation on data products using unstructured data

Functional Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical person on various tasks involving text mining and exploration of large unstructured data from the web
• Work on computer vision/voice transcription problems which are relevant to business
• Write real-time prototypes of newly designed algorithms and develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems such as in language understanding

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree from top-tier colleges, NITs

Work Experience

• 3-5 years of work experience as a data scientist

Functional Competencies

• Expert-level proficiency with Python and R.
• Sound knowledge of data science principles, and underlying mathematical frameworks.
• Hands on experience in Text mining, NLP, building neural networks.
• Experience with NLP problems such as language modeling, language identification & sentiment analysis
• Proficient in Big Data technologies Hadoop/ Apache Spark. Good to have experience in using machine learning libraries on Spark.
• Good to have hands on experience on machine learning pipelines like Datalab or Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of open-source visualization tools like Bokeh server would be an additional plus
• Online MOOCs and/or a good score in hackathons/competitions will be an additional plus

Behavioral Competencies

• Self driven, ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Able to collaborate actively with others in a cross functional team
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with fast changing needs and demand for agility in development
• Ability to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to prioritize efficiently