Data Scientist

About Industry X
A new area within Accenture Digital is Industry X, an advanced, digitally enabled, innovative, planning and investment approach for manufacturing and asset-intensive industries. In your role within our Industry X team, you’ll help clients take advantage of significant market opportunities as digital technology moves into the core of industry in product development and manufacturing environments. You’ll help them transform their product, manufacturing and product-related services value chains in Products, Communications, Media, High Tech, Chemicals, Mining, Oil & Gas and Utilities. As part of Accenture Digital, you’ll benefit from tailored career management and specialist skills that will fuel your ambitions in the Industry X space.
We are looking for Data Scientists, who already enjoy working with high-end technologies on various exciting multinational projects!
What’s in it for you?

• Flexible hours
• Life & Health insurance with wide coverage including spouse and children
• Shuttle service with wide range coverage or fuel allowance
• Meal allowance
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Performance rewarding bonus & promotion
• Birthday day off
• No dress code is needed
• Personal ongoing learning budget
• Accenture Recognition points that can be turned into gift cards, holiday offers, etc
• Working on international projects with a globally diverse team
• A fast-paced technology environment
• An Employee Assistance & Wellness Program including access to telephone counseling, webinars, training, interactive tools, online and digital content
• Personalized career development plan with People Leads
• Buddy system to support your integration

Key Responsibilities: 

• Initiating and participating in projects in the area of prediction, optimization, and process improvements,
• Collecting and interpreting data,
• Automating and integrating processes,
• Researching solutions to overcome data analytics challenges,
• Developing complex mathematical models that integrate business rules and requirements,
• Proficient in writing analytical algorithms and knowing when to apply them. Having an in depth understanding of algorithms used in the field,
• Communicating and meeting with engineers and other stakeholders,
• Sharing complex ideas verbally and visually in an understandable manner with non-technical stakeholders,
• Capable of taking a Data Science project end-to-end.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related disciplines,
• 2+ years industry experience,
• Proficient in one or more data science related programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, R, etc.,
• Excellent understanding and hands on experience in statistical modeling, machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and basic AI practices,
• Familiarity with Apache big data family stack (Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark ..),
• Ability to understand and manipulate unstructured data from different platforms,
• Experience in using query languages such as SQL, Hive, Pig,
• Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase,
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a high degree of intellectual horsepower,
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com