Data Scientist (Hybrid)

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For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best in class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.

Our offices in India opened in Bengaluru in 2018. Since then, our team has fueled growth and innovation across the organization, impacting students worldwide. We are eager to grow and expand with skilled professionals like you who use their talent to build solutions, enable effective learning, and improve students’ lives.

The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.

The Data Scientist role is a creative problem solver who utilizes statistical/mathematical principles and modeling skills to uncover new insights that will significantly and meaningfully impact business decisions and actions. She/he should be able to apply their data science expertise in identifying, defining and executing state-of-art techniques for academic opportunities and business objectives in collaboration with other Analytics team members.

The Data Scientist should have the ability to communicate the project details or findings to the stakeholder.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform the full range of predictive/advanced analytics and data sciences methodologies, techniques and outputs associated with the Data Sciences area of expertise  

• Extract, manipulate, analyze & interpret data from various corporate data sources developing advanced analytic solutions, deriving key observations, findings, insights, and formulating actionable recommendations (where applicable)

• Generate clearly understood and intuitive data sciences / advanced analytics outputs

• Produce high-quality, error-free data sciences outputs

• Participate in best practice sharing and communication platform for advancement of the data sciences discipline

• Comply with established Service Level Agreements to ensure timely, high quality deliverables with value-add recommendations, clearly articulated key findings and observations

• Assist in developing data sciences training for both team members and stakeholders

• Collaborate and help other data scientists

• Present impact, insights, outcomes & recommendations to key business partners and stakeholders.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Hybrid Schedule: 3 days remote / 2 days in office

• 30-day notification period preferred

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A./B.S.) in Statistics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Physics, or similar degree

• 2+ years of experience in data science in a digitally advanced industry focusing on strategic

  initiatives, marketing and/or operations

• Knowledge of the best-in-class …