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The Principal Data Scientist is a highly skilled subject matter expert, tasked with managing the adoption of data science and analytics across the organization.
The primary responsibility of this role is to participate in the creation and delivery of data-driven solutions that add business value using statistical models, machine learning algorithms, data mining, and visualization techniques.
- Develops, designs, and programs methods, processes, and systems to consolidate and analyze unstructured, diverse “big data” sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for client services and product enhancement.
- Partners with stakeholders to identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive business solutions and leverage other data sources to enhance analysis.
- Works cross functionally to research, design, implement and deploy scalable data analytics vision and machine learning solutions to challenge complex business issues.
- Designs and enhances data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.
- Designs and codes software programs, algorithms, and automated processes to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources.
- Responsible for providing meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources; interprets and communicates insights and findings from analysis and experiments to product, service, and business managers.
- Responsible for performing analysis using programming languages or statistical packages such as Python and R etc.
- Responsible for creatively visualizing and effectively communicating results of data analysis, insights, and ideas in a variety of formats to key decision-makers within the business.
- Creates SQL queries for the analysis of data and visualizes the output of the models.
- Creates documentation around processes and procedures and manage code reviews.
- Responsible for ensuring that industry standards best practices are applied to development activities.
- Excellent understanding of data modelling, statistical methods and machine learning techniques.
- Excellent ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
- Strong desire to acquire more knowledge to keep up to speed with the ever-evolving field of data science.
- Strong curiosity to sift through data to find answers and more insights.
- Advanced understanding of the information technology industry within a matrixed organization and the typical business problems such organizations face.
- Excellent ability to translate technical findings clearly and fluently to non-technical team business stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
- Excellent ability to create a storyline around the data to make it easy to interpret and understand.
- Self-driven and able to work independently yet acts as a team player.
- Excellent ability to apply data science principles through a business lens.
- Desire to create strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of peers and senior leaders.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
- Relevant programming certification preferred.
- Agile certification preferred.
- Extended demonstrated experience in a data science role in a corporate environment and/or related industry.
- Extended demonstrated experience in statistical modelling and data modelling, machine learning, data mining, unstructured data analytics, natural language processing.
- Extended demonstrated experience in programming languages (R, Python, etc.).
- Extended demonstrated experience working with and creating data architectures.
- Extended demonstrated experience with extracting, cleaning, and transforming data and working with data owners to understand the data.
- Extended demonstrated experience visualizing and/or presenting data for stakeholder use and reuse across the business.
Workplace type:
Hybrid WorkingAbout NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
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Skills Required
- Extended demonstrated experience in a data science role in a corporate environment and/or related industry.
- Extended demonstrated experience in statistical modeling and data modeling, machine learning, data mining, unstructured data analytics, natural language processing.
- Extended demonstrated experience in programming languages (R, Python, etc.).
- Extended demonstrated experience with extracting, cleaning, and transforming data and working with data owners to understand the data.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
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