Job Description

Introduction
As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will help transform our clients’ data into tangible business value by analyzing information, communicating outcomes and collaborating on product development. Work with Best in Class open source and visual tools, along with the most flexible and scalable deployment options. Whether it’s investigating patient trends or weather patterns, you will work to solve real world problems for the industries transforming how we live.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Responsibilities:

• Build machine learning solutions to solve various business problems.
• Understand and convert supply chain related problems to math to solve optimization problems.
• Perform ad-hoc exploratory statistics and data mining tasks on diverse datasets from small scale to big data.
• Select features, build, and optimize models through machine learning techniques.
• Perform data wrangling and feature engineering
• Data mining using state-of-art methods.
• Extend company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Carry out ad-hoc analysis and present results in a clear manner.
• Maintain cutting edge in data science
• Take initiative in evaluating new approaches from data science research.
• Test new tools, platforms, and packages.

Requirements:

• Masters or Bachelor’s degree in business Analytics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operation Research, Computer Science, or related majors.
• Industry experience in operation search is a plus.
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as K Means, SVM, Random Forest, XgBoost, etc.
• Excellent understanding of linear algebra, calculus, linear programming, mix-integer programming, Heuristic algorithms, stochastic process, combinatorial optimization etc.
• Familiar with Sklearn, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib
• Familiar with tools such as SPSS Modeler, CPLEX.
• Highly proficient with data wrangling and feature engineering
• Familiar with programming tools such as Python and SQL
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Data-oriented personality and able to multi-task.
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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About Business Unit IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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