Business Technology Solutions Associate Consultant/RWD

ZS is a professional services firm that works side by side with companies to help develop and deliver products that drive customer value and company results. From R&D to portfolio strategy, customer insights, marketing and sales strategy, operations and technology, we leverage our deep industry expertise and leading-edge analytics to create solutions that work in the real world. Our most valuable asset is our people—a fact that’s reflected in our values-driven organization in which new perspectives are integral and new ideas are celebrated. ZSers are passionately committed to helping companies and their customers thrive in industries ranging from healthcare and life sciences, to high-tech, financial services, travel and transportation, and beyond.

ZS’s India Capability & Expertise Center (CEC) houses more than 60% of ZS people across three offices in New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru. Our teams work with colleagues across North America, Europe and East Asia to create and deliver real world solutions to the clients who drive our business. The CEC maintains standards of analytical, operational and technological excellence across our capability groups. Together, our collective knowledge enables each ZS team to deliver superior results to our clients.

ZS’s Digital & Technology grouphelps companies define and execute their technology strategy by designing, building and operating their business intelligence (BI), cloud, data management, dashboard and analytics capabilities. Team members strategize, design and build custom IT solutions to improve our clients’ commercial effectiveness.

ZS’s Business Technology Solutions team

The Business Technology Solutions team implements technology based solutions in the areas of business intelligence, analytics, information management, reporting and mobility. In addition, this team configures ZS’s proprietary software used to streamline business processes for commercial groups at client organizations. This team takes overall ownership of the delivery of the technical solution leading the design and development phases and collaborating with other teams for business requirements and system testing.
Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development phases during implementation of world-class technology solutions to solve business problems across multiple client engagements;
• Partner with program lead to build comprehensive implementation project plans with well-defined tasks and owners;
• Leverage information from requirements-gathering phase and utilize past experience to design a flexible and scalable solution;
• Apply appropriate development methodologies (e.g.: agile, waterfall) and best practices (e.g.: mid-development client reviews, embedded QA procedures, unit testing) to ensure successful and timely completion;
• Collaborate with other team members (involved in the requirements gathering, testing, roll-out and operations phases) to ensure seamless transitions.
• Communicate business requirements & work closely with development teams to ensure accurate understanding and implementation;
• Lead the development of project outputs such as business case development, solution vision and design, user requirements, solution mockup, prototypes, and technical architecture (if needed), test cases, and deployment plans;
• Help lead user adoption and change management activities during inception, UAT and post implementation phases.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree with specialization in Computer or IT or other computer related disciplines.
• 3-6 years of relevant consulting-industry experience working on medium-large scale technology solution delivery engagements.
• Experienced in designing and developing data management solutions on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience of working on AWS, Python, Big Data and Hadoop File System (HDFS)
• Strong hands on experience in writing code in Pyspark/Python/Shell language.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services viz., EC2, EMR, S3, Lambda, EBS, IAM, Redshift, RDS etc.
• Proficient in writing highly optimized SQL’s and algorithm for data processing
• Deep understanding of the cloud relational and non-relation database, their storage concepts, best practices and use case.
• Good hands on experience of automation using airflow/oozie
• Hands-on experience with analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. R, Mahout) will be an added Advantage

Additional skills:

• Good understanding of Real World Data and Real World Evidence.
• Deep understanding of data management best practices and data analytics
• Up to speed with latest technologies in reporting, data warehousing, and data management
• Ability to lead requirements sessions with clients and project teams;
• Excellent verbal and written communication, organization, planning and leadership skills;
• Ability to distill complex concepts into easy-to-understand frameworks and presentations
• Strong leadership, verbal and written communication skills with ability to articulate results and issues to internal and client teams
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Ability to work within a virtual global team environment and contribute to the overall timely delivery of multiple projects
• Willingness to travel to other global offices as needed to work with client or other internal project teams.

ZS is a global consulting firm; fluency in English is required, additional fluency in at least one European or Asian language is desirable.
Candidates must possess work authorization for their intended country of employment. An on-line application, including a cover letter expressing interest and a full set of transcripts (official or unofficial), is required to be considered.
ZS offers a competitive compensation package with salary and bonus incentives, plus an attractive benefits package.

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