What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Data Scientist to join Digital business practice.
About Cognizant
Cognizant Norway boasts a robust team of over 420 professionals spread across Oslo, Stavanger, Stord, and Kristiansand. Our local team includes experts in AI, data analytics, cloud services, and software development, ensuring we provide top-notch, localized support to our clients. The team is led by seasoned professional, who brings extensive experience in cloud, AI and analytics and building high performing teams. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.

About the Team / Business Unit
Cognizant collaborates with all major hyperscalers and relevant software vendors in the data and AI space. This includes partnerships with industry leaders such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Snowflake, and Databricks. Our comprehensive approach ensures that we leverage the best tools and technologies to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient solutions. Additionally, we are supported locally by our dedicated Centres of Excellence, which operate both nearshore and offshore. These centres provide specialized expertise and resources, ensuring that we can meet the unique needs of our clients and drive innovation in AI and data cost effectively.

Our projects in Norway reflect our commitment to leveraging AI and data to drive business transformation below some examples:

• Construction: We partnered with client to automate design processes using AI, optimizing construction design and accelerating time-to-market by 70%.

• Financial Sector: We have implemented AI solutions to enhance regulatory compliance and privacy, crucial for the highly regulated financial industry.

• Smart Factories: In manufacturing, we have deployed AI, Computor vision and digital twin technologies to create smart factories, improving quality, efficiency and competitiveness.

Local Vision
Our vision in Norway is to build a data-driven ecosystem that empowers businesses to harness the full potential of AI and data. We aim to:

• Enhance Digital Maturity: By helping companies modernize their core systems and migrate to the cloud, we have enabled them to become truly data driven. With the new wave of Gen Ai and Agent based Ai we are taking additional steps to put data to work and delivering greater insight into action. Re-factoring current solutions and modernising further.

• Drive Innovation: Through continuous investment in AI (1Bn USD and our own Neuro AI platform) plus other third-party data technologies, we strive to foster innovation and maintain a competitive edge for our clients.

• Promote Sustainability: Leveraging AI for sustainable practices, we aim to support Norway’s commitment to environmental sustainability and green technology. AI solutions we co-create with client shall be responsible, ethical and transparent.

• Partner collaboration Weekly meetings locally with Hyperscalers and relevant SW partners for joint coverage and growth in the Norwegian market.

About the role
As a Data Scientist you would involve fetching information from various sources and analyze it to get a clear understanding of how an organization performs. The scientist uses statistical and analytical methods plus AI tools to automate specific processes within the organization and develop smart solutions to business challenges.
Your focus will be on collecting large amounts of data using analytical, statistical, and programmable skills. It is their responsibility to use data to develop solutions tailored to meet the organisation's unique needs.
Requirements

• Must have through understanding of basic concepts of traditional predictive modelling and modern deep learning

• Must have awareness of NLP concepts (such as tokenization, embedding, encoder, decoder)

• Skilled in identifying and applying the suitable LLM for a use case

• Experience of creating and serving "low code" Gen AI application(adopting AI agents)

• Python programming skills.

• Experience of Azure cloud platform in building Gen AI applications

• B2 level Norwegian skill is mandatory

What you can expect

• Become part of a ‘flag ship’ success story - We go through enormous growth!

• Organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone

• Environment where you can make your own ideas reality

• Drive your own career

• Market conform benefits

Please contact Cajsa for more information: cajsa.orvenholt@cognizant.com