Data Scientist, II
- Zebra Technologies
- 2 - 4 years
- Pune
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
Looking for a Data Science professional with expertise in PySpark/Databricks and experience working on different stages of a Data Science project life cycle. Incumbent is expected to build and optimize Data Pipelines, tune/enhance models, and explain output to business stakeholders. Team primarily works on Demand Forecasting, Promotion Modelling, and Inventory Optimization problems for CPG/Retail customers, prior experience in CPG/Retail is strongly preferred.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using PySpark and Databricks on cloud platforms (Azure/GCP).
- Develop automated data validation process to proactively perform data quality checks.
- Optimal allocation of cloud resources to control cloud cost.
- Create and schedule jobs on Databricks platform. Work with GitHub repositories and ensure that best practices are being implemented.
- Work on Supply Chain Optimization models, such as Demand Forecasting, Price Elasticity of Demand, and Inventory Optimization.
- Build and tune forecast model, identify improvement opportunities, and perform experiments to prove value.
- Incumbent is expected to have frequent conversation with Business Stakeholders. Explain data deficiencies, forecast variances, and role of different forecast drivers.
- Follow best practices in Architecture, Coding, and BAU operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Business Stakeholders, Engagement Managers, Data Ops/Job Monitoring, Product Engineering/UI, Data Science, and Data Engineering.
- Preferred Education: bachelors in computer science/IT or in similar field with strong programming exposure and masters degree in Statistics/Operations Research/Mathematics/Data Science.
- 3 8 years of experience in Data Science/Data Engineering. Exposure to Demand Forecasting and Inventory optimization in CPG/Retail will be a big plus.
- Proven experience building and optimizing Data Pipelines/ETL processes in PySpark, DataBricks, Python (Pandas/NumPy) and SQL. Experience working with Git as a collaboration tool.
- Good understanding of cloud platform preferably Azure.
- Exposure to conventional time series forecasting (ESM, ARIMA) and Machine Learning models (GBM, ANN, Random Forests).
- The role is expected to work independently with very low supervision.
- Good communication skills, ability to present output to business stakeholder and convey data deficiencies.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Data Science & AnalyticsRole Category: Data Science & Machine LearningRole: Data ScientistEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Zebra TechnologiesLocation(s): Pune
Keyskills: arima python demand forecasting pyspark microsoft azure time series numpy random forest machine learning data engineering retail sql data bricks pandas git data science gcp operations research cpg etl programming communication skills inventory optimization statistics
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