Data Scientist - Singapore

Job description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com .

The digital revolution is changing everything. It's everywhere – transforming how we work and play. Are you reacting to the disruption each day or are you leading the way as a digital disrupter? Accenture is driving these exciting changes and bringing them to life across 40 industries in more than 120 countries. At the forefront of digital, you'll create it, own it and make it a reality for clients looking to better serve their connected customers and operate always-on enterprises. Join us and become an integral part of our experienced digital team with the credibility, expertise and insight clients depend on.

Accenture offers a comprehensive portfolio of business and technology services across digital marketing, mobility and analytics to help our clients unleash the power of digital to drive growth and create new sources of value. No other company offers the same blend of insight, assets and industry expertise to help companies become digital businesses.

Accenture Applied Intelligence helps our clients grow their business in entirely new ways. Applied Intelligence enables our clients to achieve high performance through insights from data - insights that inform better decisions and strengthen customer relationships. From strategy to execution, Accenture works with organizations to develop analytic capabilities - from accessing and reporting on data to predictive modelling - to outperform the competition.

As part of our Applied Intelligence practice, you will join a worldwide network of over 13,000 smart and driven colleagues experienced in leading statistical tools, methods and applications. From data to analytics and insights to actions, our forward-thinking managers provide analytically-informed, issue-based insights at scale to help our clients improve outcomes and achieve high performance.

Job Description

Your client's eyes probably glaze over when you discuss in detail logistic regression, cluster analysis, neural nets and other segmentation models, but they certainly appreciate your uncanny ability to utilize those to lower their marketing costs and improve marketing effectiveness. Or perhaps they rely on you to provide analytics that stimulate sales, strengthen customer loyalty and generate purchases. If you've earned a reputation for your analytics expertise, Accenture may be the perfect place to take the next step in your career journey.

Your Role

Data Scientist

As a Data Science professional, the individual will help drive sales and solutioning of data science/ analytics engagements, manage and/ or supervise project delivery, mentor teams, build new capabilities, support/contribute to thought leadership and building new skills. The candidate should be able to seamlessly work with Client teams in positioning data science/ analytical capabilities and with help of them drive an deliver data science/ analytics engagement.

The successful candidate should have strong consultative, business and communication skills in addition to quantitative ability. As well as be exposed to the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, large data sets, low signal-to-noise ratios, high variance and multiple objective functions. Requires being creative and resourceful and will utilize traditional statistical methodologies as well as newer techniques from computational statistics and data mining and big data capabilities.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

YOUR EXPERIENCE:

·  Degree in a relevant field like statistics, computer science or applied maths, physics or relevant subjects or 3+ years of experience in computer science, applied mathematics, or other quantitative/computational discipline.
·  Strong background in statistical concepts and calculations
·  3+ years of experience with real data
·  Innovative and strong analytical and algorithmic problem solvers
·  3+ years of experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash) for orchestration and data manipulation
·  3+ years of experience with statistical computing tools like R, SAS, and SPSS
·  Data engineering experience, including SQL and experience manipulating structured and unstructured data sources for analysis.

Preferred Skills

SET YOURSELF APART:

·  Experience with MapReduce/Hadoop and related technologies (e.g., Pig, Hive, Cascading).
·  Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and Elastic MapReduce a plus.
·  Familiarity with Hadoop based commercial packages (e.g. Cloudera, Hortonworks
·  Experience in text mining/NLP