• You will work with a team of highly technical and motivated developers.

• Collaborate and work with teams spread across geographies and time zones.

• You will work on the entire lifecycle of development projects, both customer specific and SAP-defined. This includes the analysis and specification of the customer-specific business requirements as well as the design, implementation, maintenance and in case of cloud services operation of customer-specific solutions.

• Implement backlogs for functional and non-functional requirements.

• Design, develop, deploy and monitor efficient AI/ML modules that drives complex business applications.

• Adhere to SAP's agile engineering practices and processes. Own your code from ideation to development, across the full stack and through QA and support.

• You will work on multiple topics and technologies with adequate enablement.

What you bring:

• Master’s in a highly quantitative field (Machine Learning, Operational Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.) preferably from a reputable institution like IITs, IISc, or equivalent

• 4+ years of industry experience in a data scientist role

• Solid understanding of the mathematics related to data science - probability, statistics, linear algebra etc.

• Extensive knowledge of various machine learning algorithms and concepts used to build predictive models.

• In-depth knowledge in at least 2 of the following data science domains:

  • Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

  • Signal Processing, Image/Video processing and recognition

  • Reinforcement Learning

• Hands on experience with computational packages (Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, Keras, Tensorflow, etc.) and visualization tools

• Highly proficient in SQL and good knowledge of relational database

• Prior experience in deploying machine learning models into production

• Experience in working with GPUs to develop models

• Possess strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills

• Past and current experience writing and speaking about complex technical concepts to broad audiences in a simplified format

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Demonstrated the ability to independently develop new concepts and stay current with academic research

• Exposure to SAP modules along with prior experience in cloud technologies like BTP, AWS, GCP, etc. is desired.

• Publications or presentations in recognized Machine Learning and Data Mining journals/conferences

• Identify and translate real world customer problems into feasible technical solutions and implement them independently. 

• Expectations and Tasks:

  • Conceptualize, design and deliver high quality solutions and insightful analysis

  • Work on gathering data and requirements, participate in solution scoping and architecture, research and prototyping innovative models

  • Build solutions by exploring data, building & validating models and deploying them to deliver maximum business impact

  •  Interact with both - internal and external stakeholders on a daily basis

  • Handle multiple projects as an individual contributor and be a multiplier by actively mentoring other resources within the team

  • Be up-to-date with latest and best practices in delivering enterprise grade data science solutions

  • Build credibility and trust with customers and project teams during project execution

  • Demonstrate adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change

  • Continually enhance existing skills and seek new areas for personal development.

  • Collaborate with product owner, architect, fellow developers, quality and user assistance specialists on design, architecture, hands-on coding, testing, etc. to deliver best solutions to our customers

  • Work on the latest technology and ensure on-time, high quality solutions

  • Embrace lean and agile software development principles

  • Perform high-level analysis of any new requirements/change requests to the solution from a technical standpoint

  • Analyze the impact of any new requirements on the existing solution

  • Work closely with other CIS Engineering team members, SAP Product Development teams, external partners and customer teams to ensure successful project completion