Cognizant Technology Solutions Hiring for Data Scientist (on-site) at Plano, TX  Full Time

This on-site position is open to any qualified applicant in the United States.

This position is on-site in Plano, Texas, and a qualified candidate must be local to the area or open to relocation.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Practice – AIA – Artificial Intelligence and Analytics

About AI & Analytics: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the data it collects and analyzes will soon sit at the core of all intelligent, human-centric businesses. By decoding customer needs, preferences, and behaviors, our clients can understand exactly what services, products, and experiences their consumers need. Within AI & Analytics, we work to design the future-a future in which trial-and-error business decisions have been replaced by informed choices and data-supported strategies!

By applying AI and data science, we help leading companies to prototype, refine, validate, and scale their AI and analytics products and delivery models! Cognizant’s AIA practice takes insights that are buried in data and provide businesses with a clear way to transform how they source, interpret, and consume their information. Our clients need flexible data structures and a streamlined data architecture that quickly turns data resources into informative, meaningful intelligence.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build end-to-end machine learning models to take on business problems around Sales Incentive Elasticities
• Perform feature engineering and support data engineering to build robust data pipelines on large marketing datasets from different sources
• Collaborate with ML Engineering to build ML Pipelines to Train, Test, Deploy, Serve, and Monitor models, Tune Hyper-parameters, detect model and data drift, and resolve issues
• Present machine learning model outcomes, and help interpret model predictions to various stakeholders using standard data visualization tools
• Write unit test cases, validation checks, technical documentation, and user stories as per requirements

Position Qualifications:

• At least 6 to 9 years of work experience
• Required skills: Python and AWS Machine Learning
• Domain skills: Automotive industry
• Hands-on experience with building Elasticity models and Sales Incentives
• Worked with optimization and causal inference
• Experience in different phases of machine learning lifecycle like model selection and training, feature engineering, tuning hyper-parameters, and deployment
• Proficient in Python, Bayesian Statistics, SKLearn/Sci-kit, Jupyter Notebooks, GitHub, and SQL
• Experience working in cloud platforms like AWS, and Big data technologies
• Knowledge of Dash Plotly and related visualization packages

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 06/07/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $82,000 to $123,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and is subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.