Sr Data Scientist
Ecolab Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Chemical Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The Senior Data Scientist will partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI/ML use cases and lead the end-to-end development of predictive and IoT-oriented solutions. They are responsible for mentoring junior team members, establishing technical standards, and delivering maintainable data products using Databricks.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 6+ years of experience in data science with strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL. The role requires hands-on expertise in time series modeling, IoT data handling, and reproducible ML workflows within cloud environments.
Full description
Responsibilities:
· Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous asks into clear AI/ML use cases
· Own product relationships for assigned use cases by managing expectations, surfacing risks early, and aligning stakeholders around tradeoffs and business outcomes
· Lead exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model selection, experiment design, and statistical validation for time series, forecasting, anomaly detection, and other IoT-oriented use cases
· Work with IoT and sensor-based data, including irregular intervals, missingness, and event-driven signals
· Define strong baseline approaches and recommend the simplest effective solution
· Build and evaluate predictive, optimization, and GenAI-enabled solutions using reproducible workflows in Databricks
· Help define and deliver data products that are reusable, maintainable, and valuable to downstream users, systems, or business processes
· Use GitHub and Azure DevOps with strong version control, pull request discipline, documentation, and work tracking practices
· Contribute to API-oriented solution design by shaping model inputs/outputs, integration expectations, and consumption patterns for downstream applications
· Mentor junior and mid-level data scientists and contribute reusable templates and team standards
Skills:
· 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied AI with a track record of delivering business-impacting solutions
· Strong programming skills in Python, PySpark, and SQL
· Solid grounding in statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and model evaluation
· Hands-on experience with Databricks for exploratory analysis, model development, and reproducible ML workflows; familiarity with MLflow is strongly preferred
· Demonstrated experience with time series modeling, forecasting, anomaly detection, and/or sequential data problems
· Experience working with IoT, sensor, telemetry, or other operational data sources
· Strong data engineering capability, including data wrangling at scale, feature pipeline design, dataset preparation, data quality troubleshooting, and support for production-ready analytical workflows
· Experience creating data products or analytics products intended for repeated use
· Experience designing baselines, features, evaluation frameworks, and error analysis approaches for real-world AI/ML use cases
· Strong ability to work across GitHub and Azure DevOps workflows, including pull requests, version control, and delivery tracking
· Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and to influence product decisions with evidence
· Experience partnering cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to move from problem framing to production decision-making
Preferred Skills:
API design and integration, model monitoring, mentoring experience, familiarity with cloud-native deployment patterns
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