Data Scientist

This in-person position is open to any qualified applicant in the United States and Canada

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

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 Within AI & Analytics, we work to design the future-a future in which trial-and-error business decisions have been replaced by informed choices and data-supported strategies!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.

Potential candidates should have excellent depth and breadth of knowledge in machine learning, data mining, and statistical modeling. The right candidate should turn business issues into analytical problems, select data sets, implement algorithms, and share insights.

• Understand business requirements and analyze datasets to determine suitable approaches to meet analytic business needs and support data-driven decision-making
• Design and implement data analysis and ML models, hypotheses, algorithms and experiments to support data-driven decision-making
• Apply various analytics techniques including predictive modeling, prescriptive modeling, math, statistics, advanced analytics, machine learning models and algorithms, etc.; to analyze data and uncover meaningful patterns, relationships, and trends
• Design efficient data loading, data augmentation and data analysis techniques to enhance the accuracy and robustness of data science and machine learning models, including scalable models suitable for automation
• Research, study and stay updated in the domain of data science, machine learning, analytics tools and techniques etc.; and continuously identify avenues for enhancing analysis efficiency, accuracy and robustness

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Operational research, Statistics, Applied mathematics, or in any other engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of expirence in an IT related role
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Python programming for data analysis, machine learning, and with libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy, and Gensim.
• 2+ years of experience with both supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques.
• 2+ years of experience with data analysis and visualization using Python packages such as Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, or data visualization tools like Dash or QlikSense.
• 1+ years' experience in SQL programming language and relational databases.

• Experience in working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, using its capabilities for ML model development and deployment.
• Besides Python, familiarity with one more additional programming language (e.g., C/C++/Java)
• Experience working with large language models such GPT-4, Google, Palm, Llama-2, etc.
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and data presentation skills.

The annual salary for this position is between $70,000- $117,000 USD 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.

Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Cognizant is committed to ensuring that all current and prospective associates are afforded equal opportunities and treatment and a work environment free of harassment.

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to demonstrate the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.