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Data Science Research Specialist - New York New York
Company: Accenture Location: New York, New York
Posted On: 05/03/2024
Organization: Corporate Functions/Research & Innovation Location: New York, NY Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song - all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 733,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com . People in the Corporate Function contribute to the running of Accenture as a high-performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area. This role is in Accenture Research Global Data Science Team. We are looking for a data scientist with business knowledge and research mindset and a passion for data-driven insight discovery. We offer a career aligned to our priority of creating innovation and impact, managing complex data driven research projects, with multinational and multidisciplinary teams. We provide opportunities for coaching, supervision and mentoring, as well as responsibilities to manage dedicated research budgets and relationships with external partners. Key Responsibilities include - Support global data science research projects and assets development focusing on business impact.
- Support the development of novel data-driven approaches to support current and future research projects.
- Help in the design and execution of groundbreaking and differentiated data science assets.
- Collaborate closely with research leads as well as business stakeholders to drive innovation on research projects
- Foster the adoption of data science research tools and outputs within Accenture (econometric modeling, text analytics, sentiment analysis, data-wrangling, machine learning, web-scraping etc.
What we offer - We have access to 100+ business data sources through our research data lake. We are constantly expanding our universe of data from commercial and open sources and partnering with premium data providers to improve quality of inputs into our models.
- We provide several unique training opportunities to continue your growth, including both internal trainings, on the job, personal exploration time to work on novel methodologies without the constraints of a projects and with leading universities.
Experience and skills - Track record in data science tools and techniques (incl. Python, Google Cloud, SQL, NLP, text analytics, data-wrangling, machine learning)
- Strong interest in Technology and Business research
- Understanding of business dynamics and how to incorporate them into data science models
- Strong analytical skills and a proven ability to make sense out of data
- Strategic problem solver with the ability to take an issue and turn it into a researchable question
- Strong professional qualities: client focus, decisiveness, integrity, resilience to stress against stretch goals and deadlines
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Experience in the presentation of research deliverables to high level executives
- Enthusiasm to work effectively in a global, multi-cultural team
Basic Qualifications - Minimum of 3 years of data science experience and/or data analytics
Preferred Qualifications - Master in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or similar
- Knowledge of LLM models (e.g. Azure OpenAI, Llama 2, Gemini) and GenAi framework (e.g. Langchain)
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