Data Scientist – Cognizant – Bangalore (5-7 years of experience)

Jobs Admin 29 Jan, 2015 • 2 min read

Designation – Data Scientist

Location – Bangalore

About employerCognizant

Job description:

Qualification and Skills Required

  • Academics: A full time graduation / post-graduation with specialization in Radiology Diagnostics/Healthcare – Preferred
  • 5 – 7 Years of experience in advanced analytics, preferably in the HealthCare domain
  • Ability to use data for Exploratory, descriptive, Inferential, Prescriptive, and Advanced Analytics – Mandatory
  • Ability to share dashboards, reports, and Analytical insights from data – Mandatory
  • Work closely with the Architect/product manager to identify & answer important product/solution questions – Mandatory
  • Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources – Mandatory
  • Setup, Analyze and interpret the results of product experiments. Answer questions by using appropriate statistical techniques on available data – Mandatory
  • Communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner – Mandatory
  • Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources – Mandatory
  • Interface with stakeholders for Requirements understanding, architecture clarifications etc. – Mandatory
  • Support in project estimation, planning and risk management activities. Identify and escalate risks in time – Mandatory
  • Ensure compliance to the Quality Management System and regulatory requirements – Mandatory
  • Should be able to work on multiple projects – Preferred
  • Technical Knowledge and Skills required
  • Proficient in MS Office, especially MS Excel, PowerPoint, SAS, and Tableau/Qlikview. Working knowledge of SQL – preferred
  • Expert knowledge of analysis tools (R, Matlab, or SAS etc)
  • Experience working with Big data, large data sets
  • Knowledge of distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive etc.) would be good to have
  • Ability to develop hypothesis, test them with experiments, Statistical analysis and predictive modelling
  • Exposure to Natural Language Processing, Machine learning, Conceptual modelling
  • Strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
  • Preferable – Healthcare domain, Familiarity with some scripting languages (Python, Pig or SQL)

Interested people can apply for this job can mail their CV to [email protected] with subject as Data Scientist – Cognizant – Bangalore

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