Job Information
Publicis Groupe Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru, India
Overview
The Automotive practice within Epsilon accelerates and drives growth for major players of the automotive industry, from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) to Dealers big and small in the US and Canada. Part of a 1,600-member global team, the practice offers the automotive world’s largest service reminder platform along with agency services and digital media solutions. A leader in the automotive space, the team supports over 50% dealers in the US and manages 280M+ customer vehicle relations.
The Automotive Data Science team within Epsilon partner with both internal and external clients and data providers, leverage predictive analytics and advanced modeling techniques to drive strategic thought and effective decision making. The core work charter includes supporting Retail and After Sales Service businesses for all the OEMs by developing solutions across the Customer Journey to drive Acquisition, Engagement, Retention using Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning Capabilities and Data Platforms.
The Lead Data Scientist would support stakeholders by deploying projects from inception to insights and enable business strategy and impact for the clients. Contributes towards driving efficiency through process improvement and automations. Demonstrates subject matter expertise, innovative thinking, passion, and cross team collaboration. Establish strong working relationship with stakeholders, coach and develop junior data scientists in the team.
Responsibilities
Deliver end to end Data Science projects including understanding of business requirements, exploratory data analysis, data processing, aggregating data, feature engineering, building, and validating predictive models, explaining model results and insights.
Use AI, ML, DL techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, tree-based algorithms, support vector machine, and neural networks, recommender system, attribution modeling to address business problems.
Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources/features, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.
Provide requirements to develop analytical capabilities, platforms, and pipelines.
Present insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication
Automate processes to ensure scalability of solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Coach junior data scientists and support delivering projects.
Qualifications
Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Data Science, Business Analytics).
8-10 years of experience as a Data Scientist deploying Data Science projects.
7+ years of coding skills in Python, SAS, and SQL.
Deep understanding and hands-on experience in Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Good understanding of LLM, GenAI and Databricks is preferred.
Experience of working with large data sets and developing scalable solutions.
Knowledge of Automotive, Marketing Business, E-Commerce, Digital transformation is preferred.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and project management skills.
Ability to work independently and deal with ambiguity.
Excellent presentation and communication skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Highly motivated and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills.
Additional Information
Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.
Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.
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