Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Your Impact:

The purpose of the Senior Associate, Data Science  is to work with clients undergoing a data-driven transformation (DDT) across the globe. The Senior Associate will accelerate and drive the DDT strategy for clients, working in partnership with digital directors, client teams, and practice capability. Furthermore, the role will be a key contributor in ensuring Publicis Sapient is an industry leader in digital thinking, execution, and value realization for clients through data-driven solutions.

• You will function as part of a world class Data Science team to support various AI and machine learning initiatives
• Solve complex marketing and business challenges by accessing, integrating, manipulating, mining, and modeling a variety of data sources
• Reframe client business questions into data science deliverables. Contribute to data science roadmap creation. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to establish objectives, deliverables, and timelines
• Use distributed computing systems to ingest, access and integrate various big data sources
• Perform exploratory data analysis, data cleansing and imputation, feature generation in preparation to the modelling process
• Apply various quantitative techniques to build predictive models and uncover patterns in data
• Build scalable data pipelines and models for real-time modelling frameworks
• Document and visualize your work and outputs for technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute to the Data Science capability through presenting work, mentoring talent, helping form best practices and point of views on various AI-related topics

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• Broad awareness of data science concepts including, linear regression, logistic regression, correlation variance, standard dev, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, parameter tuning, cross- validation, boot strapping, forecasting and Imputation. 
• Experience with Python, R, Tensorflow, Cortana, Azure, Watson, SPSS, and SAS.
• Hands on evaluation experience with understanding of data exploration, model comparison, model evaluation, insights/interference, and data Interpretation / insight analysis.
• Demonstrable delivery experience using a wide variety of machine-learning techniques including classifiers, regression, clustering, decisions trees, neural networks, NLP, and ensemble techniques.
• Experience with customer segmentation, behavior analysis, developing recommender systems, fraud analytics, personalization systems and forecasting.
• Ability to work with data engineers to design/develop data intensive solutions
• Broad understanding of digital landscape and martech principles
• Experience with solution design and development, quality assurance and testing, data visualization and prototyping.
• Ability to integrate multiple methods to accomplish specific objective/project and apply techniques and learnings from past projects to new projects
• Great written and verbal communication and the ability to work closely with senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor's, Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Physics, Engineering or related field.

Additional Information

Pay Range: $134,000 - $161,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Corporate gift matching program

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.