Data Science Research Specialist

Organization: Corporate Functions/Research & Innovation

Location: New York, NY

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People in the Corporate Function contribute to the running of Accenture as a high-performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.

This role is in Accenture Research Global Data Science Team.

We are looking for a data scientist with business knowledge and research mindset and a passion for data-driven insight discovery.

We offer a career aligned to our priority of creating innovation and impact, managing complex data driven research projects, with multinational and multidisciplinary teams. We provide opportunities for coaching, supervision and mentoring, as well as responsibilities to manage dedicated research budgets and relationships with external partners.

Key Responsibilities include

• Support global data science research projects and assets development focusing on business impact.

• Support the development of novel data-driven approaches to support current and future research projects.

• Help in the design and execution of groundbreaking and differentiated data science assets.

• Collaborate closely with research leads as well as business stakeholders to drive innovation on research projects

• Foster the adoption of data science research tools and outputs within Accenture (econometric modeling, text analytics, sentiment analysis, data-wrangling, machine learning, web-scraping etc.

What we offer

• We have access to 100+ business data sources through our research data lake. We are constantly expanding our universe of data from commercial and open sources and partnering with premium data providers to improve quality of inputs into our models.

• We provide several unique training opportunities to continue your growth, including both internal trainings, on the job, personal exploration time to work on novel methodologies without the constraints of a projects and with leading universities.

Experience and skills

• Track record in data science tools and techniques (incl. Python, Google Cloud, SQL, NLP, text analytics, data-wrangling, machine learning)

• Strong interest in Technology and Business research

• Understanding of business dynamics and how to incorporate them into data science models

• Strong analytical skills and a proven ability to make sense out of data

• Strategic problem solver with the ability to take an issue and turn it into a researchable question

• Strong professional qualities: client focus, decisiveness, integrity, resilience to stress against stretch goals and deadlines

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Experience in the presentation of research deliverables to high level executives

• Enthusiasm to work effectively in a global, multi-cultural team

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of data science experience and/or data analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• Master in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or similar

• Knowledge of LLM models (e.g. Azure OpenAI, Llama 2, Gemini) and GenAi framework (e.g. Langchain)

Professional Skills

• Excellent communication, organization time management and problem-solving skills

• Exceptional track record of building relationships with stakeholders

• Strong multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple projects

• Proven team management skills and growth mindset

• Ability to function as a Team Player and maintain a good working relationship, yet think and act independently with professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality

• Attention to detail and willingness to flex based on business priorities

• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

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Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $63,200 to $169,800

Colorado $63,200 to $146,700

New York $58,500 to $169,800

Washington $67,300 to $156,200

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