ZS is a place where passion changes lives.
As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, our most valuable asset is our people.
Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide.
ZSers drive impact by bringing a client first mentality to each and every engagement.
We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business.
Bring your curiosity for learning; bold ideas; courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.
Our most valuable asset is our people.
At ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and
make us unique.
We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here.
about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about.
Data Science Consultants design, develop and execute high-impact analytics solutions for large, complex, structured, and unstructured data sets (including big data) to help clients make better fact-based decisions.
What You’ll Do
•Execute and lead application of numerical optimization techniques on large, unstructured data sets to solve problems
•Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy optimization based solutions on datasets of large dimensionality to create practical solutions that achieve desired results in a computationally efficient and statistically effective manner;
•Play a key role in development of data science capabilities for solving problems and offerings that create scale and advance our analytic capabilities
•Lead conversations with clients and other ZS stakeholders to effectively integrate and communicate analysis findings;
•Evaluate emerging datasets and technologies and help define our analytic platform;
•Own development of select assets/accelerators that create scale;
•Contribute to thought leadership through research and publications;
•Guide and manage project teams of Associates/Associate Consultants.
What You’ll Bring
•Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
•6 – 9 years of relevant experience
•Strong theoretical and applied understanding of linear programming, convex optimization, non- linear programming, and other optimization topics
•Experience with other data science concepts and algorithms (e.g. supervised / unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, simulation modeling, recommender systems, etc.);
•Relevant programming background (e.g. Python/ R);
•Understanding of relevant tools/platforms (e.g. ML / data engineering tools and platforms);
•Team management and skill development experience;
•Agile project planning and project management experience preferred;
•Excellent oral and written communication skills;
•Strong attention to detail, with a research-focused mindset;
•Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills;
•High motivation, good work ethic and maturity.