Designation – Data Scientist

Location – Bangalore

About employer–Cognizant

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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