Associate Data Scientist

Overview

Job Title

Associate Data Scientist

Job Description

At Philips, data is in the center of everything we do. We believe that, every data item has a story of its own. If you have a penchant for unravelling the hidden patterns, then you are the person we are looking for!

To build our next generation smarts, you will be working with experts in a variety of fields, including clinical & regulatory specialists, UX designers, dental and skin care professionals, system architects, product management to integrate new technologies and refine system performance. You will help build learning systems, leveraging data sets consisting of user interactions and actions, collected from hundreds of thousands of consumer devices, per day to model, analyse, and predict user behaviours. While some of our algorithms run on resource constrained devices, others require large clusters on our cloud infrastructure. As data scientist you will investigate, discern, and interpret data sets to recognize user behaviour and predict trends.

Job Responsibilities

• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, campaign optimization and other business outcomes
• Work with product management to develop data use cases and embed predictive models in workflows on resource constrained platforms and cloud enabled.
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning and deep learning techniques
• Collaborates with Data Engineers to enhance data collection and ingestion/curation techniques to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy. Life cycle management of predictive models.
• Adherence to compliance procedures in accordance with regulatory standards, requirements, and policies. Managing and designing the reporting environment, including data sources security, and metadata.
  
  

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Information management, Statistics or related field, with 5 to 7 years of experience in the Consumer or Healthcare industry manipulating data sets and building predictive models with focus on product development
• Experience in statistical modelling, machine learning, data mining, unstructured data analytics and natural language processing. Sound understanding of - Bayesian Modelling, Classification Models, Cluster Analysis, Neural Network, Nonparametric Methods, Multivariate Statistics, etc.
• Strong hands on knowledge of ML techniques like regression algorithms, K-NN, Naïve Bayes, SVM and ensemble techniques like Random forest, AdaBoost etc
• Having strong knowledge in unsupervised learning algorithms using Neural networks and Deep-Learning
• Strong knowledge in Data Wrangling and Exploration techniques to identify the patterns, trends and outliners.
• Deep knowledge and practical experience with data science toolkits, such as NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn or equivalent
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as QlikView, Matplotlib, seaborn or equivalent tools.
• Proficiency in using query languages, such as SQL, PL/SQL
• Hands on experience in the one or more databases like Hadoop, AWS Redshift, Snowflake etc.
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Good ETL scripting and programming skills, such as Python, R or Scala to integrate developed solution into the proposition.
• A team player capable of working and integrating across cross-functional team for implementing project requirements. Experience in technical requirements gathering and documentation.
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced global collaborative agile team environment with tight deadlines
• A flexible, pragmatic and collaborative team player with innate ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels in the organization.
• A self-starter with high levels of drive, energy, resilience and a desire for professional excellence with a passion for data and data science
  
  

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

this role is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.