We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Data Scientist to drive impactful data science initiatives across our organization. This role will focus on solving complex business problems by leveraging predictive and generative AI agentic AI workflows and largescale data analytics. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both data science and engineering along with handson experience in deploying AI solutions in production environments.
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- Identify highimpact business opportunities through deep data exploration EDA and model prototyping
- Translate business problems into scientific formulations and design data science solutions accordingly
- Discover and curate relevant datasets (structured & unstructured) aligned with business goals
- Lead the extraction transformation and compilation of data across multiple sources using tools like SQL R and Python
- Conduct rigorous statistical analysis and experimentation driving hypothesis formulation and validation
- Automate analytics and reporting processes to ensure scalability reduce manual effort and spot anomalies
- Develop predictive models to support brand creative and audience strategies
- Analyze and interpret data trends over time to deliver actionable business insights
- Implement and finetune models in production working closely with ML engineers and developers
- Deploy monitor and optimize predictive and generative AI models at scale
- Build agentic AI workflows that use contextual and realtime data to produce relevant and validated insights
- Finetune foundation models (e.g. LLMs) using proprietary datasets from multiple sources
- Integrate and orchestrate data flows across APIs and live feeds to centralize access and accelerate insights
- Champion model governance and performance tracking over time
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams (Strategy Creative Engineering Marketing) to align on goals and deliverables
- Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to knowledge sharing and best practices
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science Computer Science Engineering or related field
- 10 years of professional experience in data science including 35 years in a lead or principal role
- 2 years of domain experience in marketing creative advertising or media agency context (highly preferred)
- Strong programming expertise in Python with libraries such as pandas NumPy Matplotlib ScikitLearn TensorFlow PyTorch and Keras
- Handson experience in machine learning and deep learning techniques (classification regression clustering etc.
- Expertise in both Predictive AI (Machine Learning / Deep Learning) and Generative AI solutions
- Experience with agentic AI workflows and reasoning models for insight generation
- Proficiency with cloudbased platforms like Azure ML AWS Sagemaker Azure OpenAI AWS Bedrock etc.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience working with structured and unstructured data
- Strong communication and leadership skills with a proven ability to lead data science projects endtoend
Preferred Skills
- Experience building productionready APIs or data pipelines for ML models
- Experience in NLP LLM finetuning and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG)
- Familiarity with MLOps and CI/CD workflows for model deployment and lifecycle management
- Strong stakeholder management and crossfunctional collaboration skills
Location:
DGS India Pune Kharadi EON Free Zone
Brand:
Dentsu Creative
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent