Advanced Data Scientist

Zebra Technologies; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible hours

Summer Flex Fridays

Focus Fridays

Well-being day

Job summary

Zebra Technologies Bengaluru wants a Senior Data Scientist to lead the full data science lifecycle. You will design and optimize ETL pipelines, build ML models, and operationalize solutions on cloud platforms like Azure/GCP.

You will work with stakeholders to align analytics with business goals and drive measurable impact. The role requires experience with PySpark, Databricks, and advanced analytics in Retail/CPG domains, plus GenAI awareness.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required; 6+ years in Data Science/Data Engineering.
• Strong Python/PySpark, SQL, and cloud resource experience.
• Hands-on with AWS/Azure/GCP and Databricks stack.
• Experience delivering end-to-end ML/AI pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines on cloud platforms.
• Develop data validation processes for data quality checks.
• Utilize Databricks modules to run experiments and schedule jobs.
• Optimize cloud resources and Databricks DBUs to manage costs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Build and tune ML/AI and optimization models; demonstrate value.
• Explaining model performance and data deficiencies to business.

Education

Master's degree in engineering, computer science, data science, operations research, statistics, mathematics, quantitative sciences or relevant work experience

Tools

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

DeltaLiveTables

Unity Catalog

MLFlow

Airflow

GitHub

GenAI/LLMs

LangChain

Python

Job description

Overview

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer's and partner's needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You'll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about-locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What We're Looking For

The Data Scientist Sr will have experience working across the full lifecycle of a Data Science project. The ideal candidate will demonstrate proficiency in the design, building, and optimization of data ingestion and data transformation pipelines; the design, enhancement and tuning of ML/AI models, the operationalization of resultant models; and communicating root cause analysis and model explainability to business stakeholders. The role will entail interfacing with various source systems, and proficiency in PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and related cloud resource management services. Prior experience with advanced analytics, ML/AI, and optimization solutions in the Retail/CPG domain is strongly preferred. A working knowledge of GenAI/LLMs and Agentic-AI in the context of workflow automation will be valuable but is not the primary requirement for this position.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using PySpark and Databricks on cloud platforms (Azure/GCP).

• Develop automated data validation process to proactively perform data quality checks.

• Employ key Databricks modules (DeltaLiveTables, Unity Catalog, MLFlow) to facilitate creating, running experiments, automating, and scheduling jobs on Databricks.

• Optimize the allocation of cloud resources and Databricks DBUs to manage and control cloud and Databricks consumption cost.

• Employ GitHub repositories to ensure that production code management best practices are being strictly adhered to.

• Build and tune ML/AI and optimization models, identify algorithmic performance improvement opportunities, and perform experiments to demonstrate incremental value delivered.

• Have frequent conversations with Business Stakeholders to understand their requirements and concerns. Explain data deficiencies, model performance/root cause analysis, and model output.

• Follow best practices in Data Architecture, Coding, and Project Management operations.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Customers' Stakeholders, Engagement Managers, Data Ops/Job Monitoring, Product Management & Software Engineering.

• Expand the use of analytics, ML/AI, mathematical optimization, Gen-AI/LLMs and Agentic-AI in the context of Retail/CPG business use cases such as anomaly detection, demand forecasting, price elasticity modeling, promotions features & strategy simulation, product cannibalization and halo modeling, markdown optimization, product allocation, reorder/replenishment, size and pack optimization, workforce scheduling & task optimization

Qualifications

Job Requirements

• Minimum Education:

• Master's degree in engineering, computer science, data science, operations research, statistics, mathematics, quantitative sciences or relevant work experience

• Minimum Work Experience (years):

• 6+ years of experience in Data Science/Data Engineering with emphasis on the full lifecycle of Data Science-ML/AI projects.

• Within that timeframe, experience is expected in: Python/PySpark, SQL, and relational or NoSQL databases, and cloud resource management.

• Key Skills and Competencies:

• Experience working with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments.

• Experience implementing advanced analytics, ML/AI algorithms (such as: ,

• Statistical Time Series: Exponential Smoothing Models, S/ARIMA;

• Machine Learning: Random Forests, Gradient Boosting Methods;

• Neural Networks: TiDE (Google), DenseNet & Prophet (FB-Meta);

• Foundational Time Series Models: TimesFM (Google), Chronos (AWS)

• Mathematical (constrained linear, non-linear and network) optimization models

• Proven experience building end-to-end production grade Data & ML/AI pipelines using PySpark, Python (Pandas/NumPy) and SQL.

• Experience working with Git (or similar code management repositories) as a collaboration tool. production-grade

• Experience with orchestration tools like Databricks, Airflow (or similar tools like Snowflake, Dagster, etc.).

• Understanding of Retail/CPG industry business challenges with an emphasis on Supply Chain, Pricing/Promotions/Markdowns, Inventory Allocation, Assortment Mix Planning, Size & Pack Optimization, Retail Shrink/Fraud & Anomaly Detection, and Workforce optimization applications are highly desirable.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially as it relates to technical communications. Ability to present technical analysis to business stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently, particularly as technology in this domain rapidly advances. In this context, a working knowledge of GenAI/LLMs, Agentic-AI and related frameworks (e.g. LangChain) will be a plus.

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and a fast-paced environment.

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Benefits

We understand the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing, which is why we offer flexibility for our teams including: hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day to promote revitalization and success.

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