What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at Accenture?
Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.
As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.
You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.
Key Responsibilities:
Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with both our products
Partner with teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches
Forecasting and goaling, designing, and evaluating experiments, building and analyzing dashboards and reports, and evaluating and defining metrics
Exploratory Analysis: proposing roadmap items, user behaviors, and long-term trends, identifying new levers to help move key metric, and building models of user behaviors for analysis
Product Leadership: influencing product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations, communicating state of business, experiment results
Data Infrastructure: Hadoop and Hive, MySQL, Oracle, and Vertica, and automating analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL
Knowledge of statistics: hypothesis testing, regression
Minimum 6 years of total work experience
Minimum 2 years of Data Scientist experience
Minimum 2 years of SQL experience
Minimum 2 years of Python experience
Preferred Qualification:
Data Analytics
Good communication skills
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, New York, Maryland or Washington as set forth below. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here.
Role Location
California – $80.26/HR - $98.26/HR
Colorado – $80.26/HR - $98.26/HR
District of Columbia - $80.26/HR - $98.26/HR
New York – $80.26/HR - $98.26/HR
Maryland – $80.26/HR - $98.26/HR
Washington – $80.26/HR - $98.26/HR
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Salary : $80 - $98
