Nielsen, a prominent global information and measurement company, is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Data Scientist in Bangalore. This role demands candidates with a diverse educational background, including degrees in data science, statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, information sciences, or other relevant fields in the biological or physical sciences. With an experience requirement of 0-3 years, this opportunity is open to both fresh graduates and those with some prior experience in the field. As a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen, individuals will be at the forefront of leveraging data to drive insights and solutions for clients across various industries. Located in Bangalore, this position offers an enriching work environment within a renowned company, providing ample opportunities for professional growth and advancement in the exciting field of data science.
Company Name: Nielsen
Job Role: Senior Data Scientist
Education Required: Degree in data science, statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, information sciences, or another biological/physical science.
Experience Required: 0-3 years
Job Location: Bangalore
Role and Responsibilities:
- Build measurement and planning solutions for publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
- Support reproducible data science projects end-to-end.
- Deploy and maintain data pipelines and models in a production environment.
- Work with cross-functional teams to productionize, validate, and optimize methodologies.
- Communicate methodology and research findings to varying audiences.
- Support research on methodology changes to cross-platform audience measurement. The primary research areas include trend analyses, imputing missing data, representation/ sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, data integration, and automation.
- Continuous support and development of new projects by exploring the data Variable Identification, cleaning the data , applying dimension reduction techniques, calculating distances and integrating the surveys. And also using output evaluation techniques in order to make sure of the accuracy.
- Address quality escapes and fix issues in production code.
- Document new methodologies and code.
Required Skills and Qualification:
- 0-3 years work experience.
- Proficiency in Python, Spark, SQL.
- Degree in data science, statistics, engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, information sciences, or another biological/physical science.
- Strength in code documentation.
- Proficiency in Git and code versioning tools (GitLab).
- Proficiency in Atlassian Suite such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Familiarity with cloud computing (AWS, Google Cloud preferred).
- Knowledge of statistics and machine learning.
- Ability to manipulate, analyze, and interpret large datasets.
- Knowledge of dashboarding and visualization tools like Spotfire/Tableau.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Collaborative code development experience, including version control, unit/integration testing, code review and sharing.
- Self-motivation and an ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective relationships with other team members, including remotely.
