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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Insights and Functional Decision Science Practitioner Senior Analyst

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
AI & Machine LearningApplied Machine Learning

About the job

Requirements
  • Advanced SQL and campaign analytics and customer relationship management (CRM) or customer analytics skills.
  • Proficiency in Python for machine learning and data science, including scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, or equivalent.
  • Experience building and deploying classification, regression, and ranking models at scale.
  • Strong understanding of customer analytics methodologies, including propensity modeling, customer lifetime value, churn prediction, and predictive segmentation.
  • Familiarity with machine learning operations (MLOps) practices, including model monitoring, versioning, lifecycle governance, and reproducibility.
  • Experience working with CRM and marketing data, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud event data, customer data platform profiles, transactional data, and engagement signals.
  • Understanding of experimental design, control-group methodology, and A/B testing statistical frameworks.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence and machine-learning-driven personalization and decision engines.
  • Proficiency in Power BI and/or Tableau for dashboard development.
  • Hands-on experience with CRM and campaign platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Campaign, Braze, or similar.
  • Strong knowledge of segmentation methodologies and customer analytics, including recency, frequency, and monetary analysis (RFM), customer lifetime value (CLV), and propensity scoring.
  • Experience designing campaign measurement frameworks, including attribution, incrementality testing, A/B testing, attribution basics, and funnel analysis.
  • Experience with agentic artificial intelligence frameworks and large language model-integrated analytics pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce Einstein Analytics and Data Cloud machine-learning capabilities.
  • Knowledge of Tealium customer data platform data structures and customer profile attributes.
  • Certifications in machine learning or cloud machine-learning platforms such as AWS SageMaker, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or similar.
  • Two to four years of experience in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics, and at least one year of experience in campaign analytics or CRM analytics.
  • Proven track record building and deploying predictive models in production environments.
  • Experience in CRM analytics, loyalty analytics, customer lifetime value modeling, or marketing science.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
Responsibilities
  • Design and build machine-learning models for assigned use cases, including propensity scoring, churn prediction, next-best-action modeling, customer lifetime value prediction, and loyalty-tier migration forecasting.
  • Own the full model lifecycle, including problem framing, feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring.
  • Partner with Data Analysts and Analytics Managers to productionize models and integrate outputs into CRM journeys and campaign workflows.
  • Contribute to the group-level data science framework, including methodology standards, model lifecycle governance, and MLOps practices.
  • Design and govern the global control-group framework and statistical methodology across markets.
  • Translate model outputs into actionable audience briefs and campaign recommendations in partnership with Insights Managers.
  • Document model methodology, assumptions, performance benchmarks, and deployment guidelines for client and internal review.
  • Conduct customer lifetime value, churn, and engagement analyses to identify high-value customer segments and at-risk cohorts.
  • Analyze audience, channel, content, conversion, booking, revenue, and customer journey performance.
  • Prepare insight narratives, performance drivers, and optimization recommendations.
  • Lead test-and-learn design, including A/B tests and hold-out groups, and interpret results to inform future campaign strategy.
  • Build and maintain campaign performance dashboards that provide real-time and retrospective views of marketing effectiveness.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
  • Eligible US employees buy discounted stock: Accenture's purchase plan sells shares at 15% below market price.
  • Client relationships run deep: Accenture has worked with 195 of its top 200 customers for more than ten years.

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  • Bookings are not guaranteed revenue: most Accenture contracts let clients cancel quickly with little or no penalty.
  • Promotions require AI adoption: Accenture's CEO said in March 2026 that employees must use its tools effectively.
  • Federal hiring practices proved costly: Accenture settled discrimination allegations for $25 million in September 2026, without a liability finding.

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  • Its AI platform switches models: AI Refinery selects among prebuilt models according to cost, performance and other requirements.
  • Accenture owns specialist Microsoft expertise: it cofounded the Microsoft-focused Avanade consultancy with the software maker.
  • Consulting includes creative agencies: Accenture Song owns businesses spanning advertising, digital product design and customer engagement.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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