Data Scientist

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do:

• 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:

Educational Qualification

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

Work Experience

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

Skills and Competencies :

• 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

Meet your team:

SAP Customer Innovation Services Engineering (Previously known as Innovative Business Solutions (IBSO)) is a global organization dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to meet our customers unique business process needs. We deliver a full lifecycle of customer specific development services - from strategic planning, risk assessment, development, and quality assurance to maintenance. With development centers in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, and India, we leverage a global delivery model.

Our vision is to become the premier strategic RISE with SAP enabler, driving accelerated innovation and technology adoption leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform, focusing on a clean core approach.

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap. com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy . Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 398091 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.