Job Description:

Cognizant is looking for a Principal Data Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence and Analytics practice (AIA) for a remote project. As a trusted advisor, responsible for providing an approach for the overall project. As a domain specialist, you will drive technology discussions and analyze the existing gaps in addressing business needs. You are a thought leader-comfortable challenging the status quo to enhance our current services and technologies.

 

About AI & Analytics: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the data it collects and analyzes will soon sit at the core of all intelligent, human-centric businesses. By decoding customer needs, preferences, and behaviors, our clients can understand exactly what services, products, and experiences their consumers need. Within AI & Analytics, we work to design the future—a future in which trial-and-error business decisions have been replaced by informed choices and data-supported strategies.

 

By applying AI and data science, we help leading companies to prototype, refine, validate, and scale their AI and analytics products and delivery models. Cognizant’s AIA practice takes insights that are buried in data, and provides businesses a clear way to transform how they source, interpret and consume their information. Our clients need flexible data structures and a streamlined data architecture that quickly turns data resources into informative, meaningful intelligence.

 
Responsibilities:

• The Senior Data Scientist will oversee the activities of the junior data scientists and provides advanced expertise on statistical and mathematical concepts for the customer intelligence uses cases.


• The Senior Data Scientist applies and inspires the adoption of advanced data science and analytics .


• Work closely with data scientists and manage day-to-day activities.


• Able to lay down the overall approach to carry out the customer intelligence use cases.


• Responsible for Collecting data through means such as analyzing business results or by setting up and managing new studies.


• Provide technical support & ideas on solving use cases.


• Provide status update to business and internal stakeholders.


• Transferring data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis.


• Creating new, experimental frameworks to collect data.


• Building tools to automate data collection.


• Searching through large data sets for usable information.


• Creating reports and presentations for business uses.


• Correlating similar data to find actionable results.


• Identify important factors to build the KPIs as needed.


• Responsible for all phases of the project to ensure on-time and on-budget completion.


• Ensure key risks / dependencies are highlighted during the course of project.

 
 
Qualifications:

• Statistical programming language, like R or Python, and a database querying language like SQL. A good understanding of statistics with statistical tests, distributions, maximum likelihood estimators, etc


• Knowledge of Azure Machine learning library, Data bricks, programming languages like SQL, Python, R, Spark, and Scala.


• Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as Power BI.


• Strong mathematics skills (e.g., statistics, algebra).


• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark.


• Advanced ability to perform exploratory data analysis.


• Experience with common data science toolkits.


• Working knowledge of statistics.


• Exceptional technical writing skills.


• Ability to communicate complex data in a simple, actionable way.


• Ability to visualize data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study.


• Analytical and problem-solving skills.


• Experience with machine learning and AI.


• Familiarity with data management tools.


• Ability to work independently and with team members from different backgrounds.


• Excellent attention to detail.

 

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

 

Company Description

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

 

Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Cognizant is committed to ensuring that all current and prospective associates are afforded equal opportunities and treatment and a work environment free of harassment.

 

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to leverage the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.

 
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Technical Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	Azure Data Lake	PL1	Required
2	Azure Machine Learning	PL1	Required
3	Python	PL1	Required

 

Domain Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	Manufacturing Oper-Manlog	NA	Required

 

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level	Generic Reference
PL1	The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2	The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3	The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4	The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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