Principal Data Scientist

Principal Data Scientist

JR-162625

Hybrid

Bengaluru

Technology

Full time

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Help us challenge assumptions, uncover bias, and remove barriers - because progress starts with fresh ideas. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you - because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary

Partners with the business and IT community to ensure that the right people have access to the right data in the right format at the right time. Data Science Analyst is an advanced technical professional role responsible for exploring and analyzing data across the enterprise and presenting information and key insights that support the organization's strategies. The Data Science Analyst has in-depth knowledge across multiple technical environments as well as strong business acumen and provides expertise regarding systems design, integration and performance analysis across the business. The role promotes shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows, and it ensures that new technology solutions do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. Develops strategies and provides guidance to the team in building data models.

Responsibilities

Business Analysis

Partners with team members and vendors in enabling efficient requirements gathering

Respected by business for deep, cross functional data analysis expertise and innovative solutioning in improving organizational effectiveness

Able to distill executive level requirements into appropriate discovery work plans and guide team members on requirements gathering

Proactively meets with stakeholders and engages in effective discussions resulting in new initiatives

Stakeholder Management

Supports senior stakeholders and management team in identifying, communicating to senior stakeholders

Recognized by senior managers as a skilled communicator, trusted to recognize and proactively manage key impacts

Excels at stakeholder communication in identifying use cases with high business value

Solution Design

Responsible for designing strategic cross-functional and global solutions that align with long-term organizational goals and roadmaps

Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team to ensure that good design practices are followed

Recognized as expert within the industry

Establishes standards

Documentation

Supports senior management by creating architecture, project management and roadmap documentation

Data Management/Architecture/Design

Supports senior management by giving them an understanding of data architecture, design methodologies and solutions to help socialize solutions and business value

Testing & Test Design

Develops test strategy and execution to cover testing in an optimal amount of time and covers scenarios

Organizes test labs for repetitive testing

Drives designing repeatable test models for effective results

Project Management

Optimizes release management to strike good balance between business goals and delivery capacity

Able to logically split bigger projects into value added releases to gain business value in progression

Identify and manage risks in release delivery

Software Engineering

Guides the team on methodologies and tools to enable better design and build

Has expertise in scripting with various programming languages and helps resolve issues for the team that need help

Develops expertise in Data Mining and predictive modeling techniques, including regression analysis, clustering, decision trees and neural networks

Has experience with Big Data Technologies (MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Yarn, Storm) and understands the concepts and technology ecosystem around both real-time and batch processing in Hadoop

Visualization

Helps teams in delivering fresh insights from data by developing thought provoking, innovative, context- sensitive visualizations

Takes the output from decision-support systems and turns it into consumable theories, postulates and hypotheses that can be tested and applied to the business

Demonstrates a comprehension of hard science, a sound understanding of business goals and processes, and a penchant for creativity

Communicates with the business stakeholders

Designs, develops, and provides implementation of compelling data visualizations, dashboards, tools and utilities using Open Source technologies (Java/J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Spring, JQuery, D3, React.js, etc.)

Analyzes techniques to organize data in visually innovative ways in order to make it easy to understand to the stakeholders and technical folks at the same time

Data Modeling & Analysis & Wrangling

Helps demystify the ambiguity in requirements for the team

Understands and advises on modeling techniques and provides guidance to the team in building efficient data models

Drives data discovery initiatives with large volumes of data, communicates data patterns and deduces hypothesis for the stakeholders

Drives the team to formulate innovative solutions to experiment and implement advanced data science solutions

Accountable for product release certification ensuring highest quality and customer experience

Vendor Management

Manages/leads individual consultants or consulting teams as assigned

Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups

Accountable for creating and negotiating vendor contracts, MSA/SOW, License Agreements and driving through internal reviews with GTS leadership and Legal teams

Vendor & Technology Evaluation

Executes and guides large-scale vendor evaluations by vetting recommendation and negotiation communications for executive review

Drives executive communications and cross functional stakeholder buy-in

Brings thought leadership to influence technology roadmap and decisions

Qualifications

10+ years experience

Bachelor's in Data Science, Computer Science or Machine Learning

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