Analytical strategy consultant

Skills & Experience
The candidate will speak fluent English (and preferably one Nordic language) and will have worked for 3-5 years as an analyst/consultant in an information-technology service for a top tier consulting company. The candidate should be able to work independently, with limited supervision, or as part of a team. The candidate should be able to manage all aspects of consulting projects i.e. scope, delivery, quality, stakeholder management, escalation resolution. Having prior experience with onsite-offshore models of global service delivery will be highly beneficial. The candidate should exhibit high level of skill in data aggregation and analysis leading to the development of Cognizant value propositions in proposal/presentations, solution development scenarios and the on-going execution of large project assignments

Qualifications and Certifications:
- Master’s degree in Business, Math, Statistics, Finance field is a must.
- Certified Applied AI with DeepLearning, IBM Watson IoT Data Science
- Experience of working on end to end analytical strategy and delivery engagements
- Experience with advanced techniques like Classification, Clustering, Time Series
- In-depth knowledge and experience in developing machine learning models
- Understanding of deep learning techniques and their application
- Strong hands on experience with advanced data science tech R, SAS, Python, Tensor Flow and open source data science notebooks like Jupyter /
Zepplin
- Experience in data preparation, data wrangling and feature engineering for ML purposes
- Strong experience and skills within Big data technologies – R, Spark, Impala, Hive, Kudu, Cloudera
- Be able to analyzing data and an insatiable curiosity to understand complex business issues and their resolution with the help of data and analytical
techniques
- Understanding of data fundamentals and industrial trends on big data usage
- Proven project delivery and project stream ownership skills
- Proven consulting and client interfacing skills
- Proven problem solving skills
- Fluent in English and preferred a Nordic language

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