Senior - Data Scientist & AI Consultant

Senior - Data Scientist & AI Consultant

Sia is an international management consulting group of a new generation, founded in 1999. Born in the digital age, we are augmented by data, enriched by creativity, and guided by responsibility. We collaborate with our clients to meet challenges and seize opportunities. In a world in constant change, we believe that optimism is a powerful lever for transformation. With expertise covering a wide range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants support clients worldwide, from 48 offices in 19 countries.

Our expertise produces concrete results. Our optimism is game-changing.

To support its development, Sia is recruiting Senior Data Science & AI Consultants.

You will join our team of experts to develop AI and generative AI solutions and support our clients in their digital transformation augmented by AI, particularly through the following issues:

• Data Ecosystem Management: data analysis treatment, mastery of data pipelines and associated infrastructure and tools
• Statistics and Machine Learning: development of explanatory and predictive models to aid decision-making (supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, econometrics, forecasting, quantitative diagnosis, etc.)
• Deep Learning: intelligent processing of unstructured data such as text (Natural Language Processing), image (Computer Vision) and audio (Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech)
• Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs): design and deployment of solutions based on LLMs (GPT, Claude, Mistral, etc.), development of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) chains, creation of business conversational assistants and autonomous agents
• Operational Research: assistance in the design and implementation of constrained optimization solutions and simulation models
• Synthetic and Insightful Presentations: production of summary notes with a very good mastery of business issues, a good ability to graphically illustrate results

In the context of your operational interventions, and your contributions to the internal development of the firm, you will be required to:

• Manage end-to-end projects on which you will have a strong autonomy to ensure the success of the mission in particular with respect to our commitments to our clients
• Supervise consultants, junior to experienced and fulfill the role of reference and relay of the manager for the follow-up of projects, validation of deliverables, evaluation of achievements, and above all ensure the good development of their skills
• Manage client relations on your missions and build a solid relationship with your client counterparts, at the middle management level, so that they identify you as an expert on the topics addressed.
• Participate in the development of the business by designing and elaborating commercial proposals, as well as by identifying new opportunities for collaboration with our clients.
• Participate in technological foresight and R&D activity within our specialized research laboratories: NLP/GenAI, Computer Vision, Times Series, Operational Research...
• Participate in the firm's visibility by actively contributing to the publication plan (articles, studies and white papers, press releases, etc.), and representing the firm in various professional clubs, trade shows and events.
• Develop and strengthen our offerings through training, collaborative work, dissemination of internal and external media

You hold a degree from an Engineering School or a high-level training in the field of applied mathematics, statistics, econometrics or Artificial Intelligence and you have initial experience in Data Science or AI.

You have an excellent level in statistics and quantitative analysis (theoretical and practical knowledge, intuition, ease of understanding models and applying them).

You master one or more programming languages and in particular Python and code versioning, and ideally have knowledge in API development (Flask, FastAPI), use of a cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP) and Deep Learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensor Flow) or Generative AI (Lang Chain, Lang Graph).

Knowledge of cloud provider environments (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure) and in particular certifications, and industrialization techniques (CI/CD) is a plus.

You have already led end-to-end projects and you wish to get involved and quickly take on responsibilities on high-value missions within a dynamic structure.

You have an appetite for the issues related to data and AI, a capacity to quickly develop skills on these subjects and are enthusiastic about helping our clients seize the opportunities.

You are curious and like working in a team? You are recognized for your analytical skills? You want to join a dynamic and motivating professional environment? You share our values which are excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, sharing, kindness and work-life balance?

You speak French and English fluently in a professional context?

Then join us!

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