Data Scientist

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

The data scientist will be a member of the data analytics team and will lead efforts around building big data, data science, data quality, and BI/MI/AI solutions. An ideal candidate will have a growth-oriented, lean-startup attitude for building hands-on data science solutions. The ideal candidate will propose, experiment, implement, and operationalize advanced predictive, preemptive data solutions designed to help traveler, travel-manager, supplier, and client outcomes. The role will span full-scale product, enterprise, and operational data science. The candidate will focus and thrive in a hands-on applied role; they will demonstrate a strong penchant for quantitative, collaborative, outcome-oriented solutions-engineering. The candidate is expected to possess some of these key skills/technologies:

• ML:
  • statistics
  • regression
  • classification
  • clustering
  • frequent association mining
  • text analytics
  • graph analytics
  • recommendation systems
  • time series analytics
  • geospatial analytics
  • heuristic methods
  • connectionist systems
  • evolutionary methods
  • montecarlo studies

• Programming:
  • python
  • r
• Big Data:
  • data visualization
  • jupyterlab
  • presto
  • bi tools
  • spark

• Artificial Intelligence:
  • deep learning
  • computer vision
  • recommendation systems
  • natural language understanding

• Solutions Engineering:
  • mobile (flutter) development
  • azure, aws, gcp
  • angular, react, vue
  • docker/kubernetes/terraforms
  • ci/cd/ct

What You’ll Do:

• Develop end-to-end decision science systems to support business imperatives – internal and external; descriptive and prescriptive.
• Be a hands-on guide; partner with business and technology customers to design and implement scalable big data solutions.
• Scan and capitalize on new products, platforms, processes, and algorithms which can bolster traveler, supplier, travel manager, travel consultant experience.
• Participate in the travel innovation office; build a strong collaborative research portfolio of travel solutions with our clients, travelers, partners, and suppliers.
• Be passionate to develop, teach, learn, operationalize, and scale citizen decision science.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience preferably with big data solutions & approaches
• Subject matter knowledge in statistics, analytics, big data, data science, machine learning, deep learning, cloud, mobile, and full stack technologies.
• Hands-on experience analyzing large amounts of data to derive actionable insights
• Good communication skills and partnerships with technology, product strategy, and data office.
• Experience collaborating and influencing senior leaders, business partners across time zones.
• Self-starter and autonomous; work with a distributed team and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership
• Degree or equivalent experience in statistics, computer science, mathematics, operations research, economics, engineering or information science
• A strong portfolio of GitHub, Kaggle, IP contributions.

 

     

Location

India

     

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

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What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;” please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!