Overview
Vodafone Idea Limited is an Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group partnership. It is India’s leading telecom service provider. The Company provides pan India Voice and Data services across 2G, 3G and 4G platform. With the large spectrum portfolio to support the growing demand for data and voice, the company is committed to deliver delightful customer experiences and contribute towards creating a truly ‘Digital India’ by enabling millions of citizens to connect and build a better tomorrow. The Company is developing infrastructure to introduce newer and smarter technologies, making both retail and enterprise customers future ready with innovative offerings, conveniently accessible through an ecosystem of digital channels as well as extensive on-ground presence. The Company is listed on National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At VIL, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best.
VIL's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our Values of Passion, Boldness, Trust, Speed and Digital. Consequently, our recruiting efforts are directed towards attracting and retaining best and brightest talents. Our endeavour is to be First Choice for prospective employees.
VIL ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, colour, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
VIL is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce.
Role
Senior Data Scientist
Job Level/ Designation
M3/ GM – Senior Data Scientist
Function / Department
BDAA and BI/ Marketing
Location
Mumbai
Job Purpose
Create business models to impact the revenue and ARPU of the customers using Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud technologies by managing a team of data scientist
Key Result Areas/Accountabilities
1. Hands on expertise in Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud technologies.
2. Interacting with key Business Stakeholders & identifying pain points.
3. Building Data Science approach & roadmap for identified business problem statement.
4. Assessing the Model accuracy both Statistical as well as Business evaluation.
5. Statistical Modelling of Data, through understanding of basic statistics, like hypothesis testing, significant analysis, probabilistic estimations, ANOVA, Variance-covariance analysis.
6. Expertise in writing efficient, modularized and standardized code in python and R
7. Experience of working with AWS tools and technologies is preferred.
8 .In depth understanding of Feature engineering and selection approaches, Segmentation or stratified analyses, anomaly detection, pattern detection and data transformation approaches. Classification; Machine/Deep Learning - Algorithm Evaluation, Dataset Preparation.
9. Excellent understanding of version control and best practices.
10. People's person, while being great team member exhibits mentoring attitude
11. Well versed with writing efficient SQL scripts for data acquisition and data aggregation
12. Experience 2-3 Managing & mentoring a team of Data Scientist & Task Allocation
Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience
1.Self-Starter, Motivated, organize, and excellent communicator
2. Compulsorily being Hands-on
3. Persistence and ability to think logically and independently
4. Quick learner and adapting to changing business needs
Must have technical / professional qualifications
1. Python
2. Cloud Computing - AWS Components ( EC2, S3,EMR,etc)
3. Machine/ Deep Learning – Logistic Regression, XGBoost, SVM, Kmeans, ANN, CNN, LSTM, LLM etc.4. Deep Learning Frameworks : Caffe, Keras, Theano, Tensorflow, or Torch.
5. Experience working on Big Data technologies (e.g. Hadoop MR, Hive, NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, Graph Databases etc.)
Qualification
1. BE, BTech Computer Science/Post Graduate Degree in Computer Applications or MCA
2. Any Certification in Machine Learning / Deep Learning - Artificail Intelligence / Data Science
3. MBA or an equivalent business analytics degree
Vodafone Idea Limited (formerly Idea Cellular Limited)
An Aditya Birla Group & Vodafone partnership
