Data Scientist Manager

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Position Summary

Level: Manager or equivalent

As a Manager at Converge by Deloitte for Consumer, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of data science solutions—partnering with Product Managers/Owners, Project Managers, and client stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable analytics products and production-ready models.You will drive EDA on large datasets, build and validate time series/demand forecasting and other advanced models, communicate results to technical and business audiences, deploy in cloud environments, and mentor teams while improving reusable products and assets.

Work you’ll do:

• Work with Product Managers/Owners to understand how products can be used and should be implemented to solve client problems.
• Work with Project Managers to understand client requirements and brainstorm on solutions, implement the assets/products as applicable. Perform exploratory data analysis on large datasets (several GB to TB) to define analytical models
• Apply data science/ML forecasting techniques to solve complex business problems, must have good understanding of Timeseries data and Demand Forecasting use cases
• Explain analytics model behavior / results in the vernacular of the market need
• Build, test, validate and demonstrate analytical models through various relevant error metrics and calibration techniques. Present the forecasting accuracy results to the client team.
• Deploy models into production
• Provide feedback to product team to improvise the products.
• Consistently strive to acquire new skills on AI / ML, Cloud, Big Data technologies
• Support and coach your team on best solutioning practices, development tools, and pathfinding and surveys for technologies
• Set technical direction, coach talent, enforce standards, align product/engineering/ops, and manage engagement risks

The team: ConvergeCONSUMER ™ is a product-driven business that combines differentiated consumer insights with next-generation decision and experience platforms to help consumer-focused businesses optimize decision making and deliver personalized experiences to drive growth, consumer loyalty and profitability. We operate with the speed and agility of a startup, inside the world’s largest professional services firm .

Qualifications Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field from a top-tier university; Advanced Degree (Bachelors/ Masters) in a relevant field is a plus
• 8-12+ years’ experience leading / implementing data science solutions.
• Experience developing, implementing and maintaining machine learning and advanced statistical algorithms
• Deep understanding of data science principles, including machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence concepts
• Advanced clustering expertise: selecting/justifying algorithms (e.g., k-means variants, GMM, density-based), distance metrics, dimensionality reduction, stability analysis, and cluster evaluation tied to business outcomes (not just silhouette scores).
• Optimization modeling depth: formulating problems as linear/integer/nonlinear/stochastic programs; constraint design; feasibility diagnostics; solver literacy (e.g., decomposition, warm starts, tuning) and translating solver outputs into actionable decisions.
• Forecasting at scale: classical time series + ML forecasting, hierarchical/temporal reconciliation, covariates and interventions, uncertainty/quantile forecasts, back testing discipline, and monitoring for drift/regime change.
• Experience working with large quantitative and qualitative datasets both hands on and managing teams doing the work
• Proven skills in Python, PySpark, SQL is a must have
• Experience with BI/analytics tools, such as Tableau, PowerBI, or similar tools is an added advantage
• Experience using statistical computer languages to prepare data for analysis, visualize data as part of exploratory analysis, generate features, and other similar data science driven data handling
• Experience working with data science tools, Sklearn, Regression, classification models
• Experience in cloud-based eco-systems such GCP, AWS, or Azure for development and deployment of models
• Familiarity with consumer related data and a general interest in the retail, consumer products manufacturing, automotive, transportation, or hospitality sectors
• Strong storytelling skills with experience presenting to large technical and non-technical audiences
• A desire to take initiative and continuously work on improving the products you handle
• Highly self-motivated, energetic, passionate team-oriented personality and working style
• Strong analytical background combined with solid business experience
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across time zones
• Setting technical direction; hiring/coaching; enforcing standards; aligning product, engineering, and ops and managing risks across multiple engagements.

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Cloud-native ML/MLOps: Build end-to-end batch/streaming pipelines with feature stores, model registry, CI/CD, automated retraining, experiment tracking, reproducibility, and cost-aware scaling.
• Cloud data engineering: Design lake/warehouse patterns with orchestration, data quality checks, schema evolution, and distributed compute (e.g., Spark/managed clusters) for clustering and forecasting.
• Production services: Package optimization/forecasting as APIs or batch jobs with latency/reliability SLOs, versioning, safe rollouts (A/B, canary), and robust fallback for solver/timeouts.

Education: BE/B.Tech/M.B.A./Other advanced degrees or equivalent from accredited university

Location: Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Pune/Chennai/

Shift Timings: 11 AM to 8 PM

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