Associate - Data Scientist

Who We Are
Bain & Company is a global management consulting that helps the worlds most ambitious change-makers define the future. Across 65 offices in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
Who Youll work with
BCN Labs is a Center of Excellence (CoE) functioning akin to a small R&D boutique startup within the Bain ecosystem, delivering end-to-end data driven client deployable solutions across a wide variety of sectors and industries. We work directly with other CoEs and Practices within Bain as part of the Expert Client Delivery system and interface with teams across the globe. We are first and foremost business thought partners working on intelligent ways of using analytical techniques and algorithms across the spectrum of disciplines that can enable building world-class solutions. Our goal is to build a disruptive high-impact business-enabled end-to-end analytical solutions delivery system across all verticals of Bain.
What You Will Do
We are seeking a strong candidate withsomeexperience in advanced analytics whomust bea great implementerandhave some exposure tothe mathematicsof the analytical techniques and algorithms to fill an excitingAssociaterole within BCN Labs. TheAssociateis expected tohave a strong expertise in the implementation ofdata science techniques along witha willingness to explore the mathematical depths ofstatistical learning models. AnAssociatewill typically deliver a client use-case end-to-end witha decent level ofoversightfrom at least someone who is a Project Leader or above. They are also expected to have the ability to churn out analytical insights from their implementations and modeling work that can be utilized by their managers to drive business insights and impact.
AnAssociateis expected to have the ability to:
Break downan analyticalproblem into its corresponding componentsin a manner that their team can collaboratively go abouttackling the pieces to then conquer the whole
Brainstorm on potential models, heuristics, algorithms and techniquesand their implementation techniqueswith their team and the Labs leadership which candevise optimal solutions to not just the problem at hand but also the scalability of the solution
Proactivelyexperiment andcodeusing a variety of technologies/languageson their own to ensure zero-defectimplementations of their solution(s)
Have structured communication skills and a willingness to learn the consulting toolkitto be able to translate analytical insights into business impacts
Work on new products and solutions and experiment withdata science techniques
TheAssociateis expected toseek out challenging problems bycoming up with their own heuristics and ideas which they will be encouraged to brainstorm with their peers and managers. They should be willing to learn new techniques and be open to solving problems with an interdisciplinary approach. They must have excellent coding skills and should demonstratea willingness to beabletowritemodular, functional codes.
About You
ABachelors/Mastersdegree in a field linked to analytics such as Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, etc.
For a Bachelors, a minimum of 2 years of work experience would be required with demonstrated implementation skills. For aMastersat least some internship experience and a strong Masters thesis would be needed.
Excellentcodingskills in Pythonand/or R andSQLwould be mandatory.
Some exposure to and expertise in statistical learning models would also be mandatory.
(Good-to-have, but not necessary) Exposure to either AWS or Azure with some experience of deploying Python based solutions on cloud platforms, Airflow, Snowflake,PySpark, Git, Docker, etc.
You will fit into our team-oriented structure with a college/hostel-style way of working, having the comfort of reaching out to anyone for support that can enable our clients better
Abilities to deliver data-driven projects
What makes us a great place to work
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