Ecolab

Sr Data Scientist

Ecolab Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Chemical Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees

3 d ago
data-scientist Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time India
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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

Python PySpark SQL Databricks Machine Learning Statistics Time Series Modeling Forecasting Anomaly Detection IoT Data Engineering MLflow Azure DevOps GitHub Predictive Modeling GenAI

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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