Senior Data Scientist

• Title Senior Data Scientist
• Location : Hyderabad
• Job type : Permanent

About the job 

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”. 

Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”. 

We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view. 

To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world. 

Who You Are:

You are a dynamic Data Scientist interested in challenging the status quo to ensure development and impact of Sanofi's AI solutions for the patients of tomorrow. You are an influencer and leader who has deployed DSC/AI/ML solutions applying state-of-the art algorithms with technically robust lifecycle management. You have a keen eye for improvement opportunities and a demonstrated ability to deliver AI/ML solutions while working across different technologies and in a cross-functional environment.

Job Highlights and responsibilities: 

• Apply data science expertise in machine learning, statistics, text-mining/NLP, forecasting and optimization to multiple analytics projects. 
• Understand business requirements – focused on science and forecasting.
• Build models, algorithms, simulations, and experiments by writing highly optimized code and using state-of-the art machine learning technologies.
• Work on full-spectrum of activities, from conducting ML experiments to delivering production-ready models.
• Use data analysis, visualization, storytelling, and data technologies to scope, define and deliver AI-based data products.
• Work with business stakeholders, developers, engineers, and MLOPS to deliver DSC/AI/ML solutions.

Key Requirements & Qualifications:

• Degree and/or master’s in mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, statistics, economics, or a related quantitative discipline with strong coding skills, OR Master’s Degree in relevant domain with 3+ years of analytical experience.
• Hands-on DSC/AI/ML modeling experience of complex datasets combined with strong understanding of theoretical foundations of DSC/AI/ML.
• Expertise within most of the following areas: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, federated learning, time series forecasting, Bayesian statistics, optimization, AI and others.
• Expertise with core data science languages (such as Python, R, Scala), and familiarity with different database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL)
• Strong programming experience and repositories experience – interest for continuous improvement
• Disciplined AI/ML development (CI/CD, Orchestration)
• Experience developing deployable code and deploying models in product-focused development under an agile environment.
• Comfortable working in cloud and high-performance computing environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Databricks, Azure, Apache Spark,…)
• Experience in production-ready software development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, business analysis, data visualization and data storytelling skills
• A demonstrated ability to work and collaborate in a team environment. 
• Nice to have: Knowledge of Tableau, Power BI, Plotly or similar
• Nice to have: previous experience developing data science projects for common business areas such as Marketing, Manufacturing and Supply, Finance,…

Other skills and competencies:

• Advanced Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) skills.
• Strong English skills both written and spoken. Spain and French are a plus
• Analytical mind and flexible, pro-active and result driven attitude.
• Ability to be highly productive and effective in remote working conditions.
• Ability to find compromises: balance between pushing for change and bringing people along.
• Team player.
• Goal-focused.
• Proactive worker
• Passion for improving and challenging the status quo: a strong educator and digital evangelist
• Learning mindset, eager to learn.
• Enthusiasm and professionalism.
• Strong self-motivation.
• Ability to handle different tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work in an International and multi-cultural global team, based on transparency, constructive feedback, mutual respect and integrity.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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