Data Scientist Job Details | PayU Payments

Description

We are looking for a data scientist in the PayU intelligence team who will be primarily responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques. Your primary focus will be to propose innovative ways utilizing graph databases and analytics to look at the problems by applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, validating your findings using an experimental and iterative approach, and building high-quality prediction systems integrated with our services. You will need strong business understanding, analytical and problem-solving skills, and programming knowledge.

Responsibilities

Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build models utilizing the traditional datasets and graph data. Apply advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on multiple real-time decision systems. Identify what data is available and relevant, including internal and external data sources, leveraging new data collection processes such as geo-location or social media Utilize patterns and variations in the volume, speed and other characteristics of data for predictive analysis. Define the preprocessing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset, data augmentation pipelines, training models and tuning their hyperparameters, analyzing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance Skills and

Qualifications

Bachelors in mathematics, statistics or computer science or a related field; Masters or PHD degree preferred. 2- 6 years of relevant quantitative and qualitative research and analytics experience. Extensive knowledge of statistical techniques. Ability to come up with solutions to loosely defined business problems by leveraging pattern detection over potentially large datasets. Proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, multivariate testing, and optimization algorithms. Proficient in deep learning (CNN, RNN, LSTM, attention models, etc.), machine learning (SVM, GLM, boosting, random forest), graph models and reinforcement learning Experience with open source tools for deep learning and machine learning technology such as Keras, tensorflow, pytorch, scikit-learn, pandas, etc. Strong programming skills (Hadoop MapReduce or other big data frameworks, Java, Python), statistical modeling (R, Python, SAS), query languages such as SQL, Hive, Pig Familiarity with basic principles of distributed computing and distributed databases. Demonstrable ability to quickly understand new concepts - all the way down to the theorems - and to come out with original solutions to mathematical issues. Apply now » Find similar jobs: . Copyright 2025 PayU. All rights reserved / Privacy / Terms of use × Cookie Consent Manager When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. Required Cookies These cookies are required to use this website and can't be turned off. Required Cookies Show More Details Required Cookies Provider

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