Senior Data Scientist - Analytics

Due to the continued growth of the business and the importance of the data we use on a daily basis, we are currently looking for a for a Senior Data Scientist to join the team in Mumbai. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior data scientist with expertise in R, R-Shiny and SQL to join our growing Data Science team in Mumbai. You will work closely with our Head of Data Science India, and our global team to support the development of new products for analytics with a particular focus on Petrochemicals. You will be responsible for building impactful data science solutions for business use cases, conducting research on large complex data sets to uncover meaningful patterns in data, employing mathematical and computational techniques to clean, manipulate, organise and model data into actionable insights and results. • Apply novel data science, machine learning and statistical techniques to provide an unbiased and quantitative solution to critical business problems. • Develop, structure and investigate your ideas by constructing hypotheses, testing them rigorously, conducting analyses, creating user prototypes, facilitating UAT, and finally presenting recommendations for improvement to current business processes. • Build user-focused data science/analytics products based on novel business use cases for internal as well as external stakeholders. • Develop and maintain models with a focus on commodity prices dynamics. • Write production-level code (clean, optimised and well-documented code) • Communicate findings timely through impressive visuals and insightful statistics.

Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets. Headquartered in London with 1,500 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world's principal commodity trading hubs. Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy. Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.