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Sr Data Scientist

Ecolab

IND - Karnataka - Bangalore - EDCFull-timePosted Oct 8, 2026

Job 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, Py. Spark, 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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