Data Scientist

Cardinal Health; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardinal Health is looking for a Data/Machine Learning Scientist in Bengaluru, India. The successful candidate will assess business opportunities, promote data science, and develop analytical solutions.

With a focus on advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, you will be responsible for working hand-in-hand with internal and external partners to operationalize data solutions while ensuring they are effectively adopted by the business.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience preferred.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and MLOps.
• Excellent programming skills with Python, R, Scala.

Responsibilities

• Conduct business assessments and promote data science use.
• Develop, test, and operationalize data science solutions.
• Monitor system performance and ensure adoption.

Skills

Data wrangling

Programming in Python

Statistics

Machine learning techniques

Agile & SCRUM

Knowledge of GCP

Education

BTech/BE from Tier 1/2 engineering schools or MStat/MS

Tools

Python

R

Java

SQL

Databricks

Job description

Data/Machine Learning Scientist

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company connecting patients, providers, payers, pharmacists and manufacturers for integrated care coordination and better patient management. Backed by nearly 100 years of experience, with more than 50,000 employees in nearly 60 countries, Cardinal Health ranks among the top 20 on the Fortune 500.

Department Overview

AI & Data Science team builds analytics and artificial intelligence solutions that drive success for Cardinal Health by creating material savings, efficiencies and revenue growth opportunities. The team drives business innovation by leveraging emerging technologies and turning them into differentiating business capabilities.

Responsibilities

Job Overview

• As Data scientist will assess business opportunities and promote use of data science, analytics within domain and build internal and external resources and expertise.
• The role requires being hands‑on and working together with external and internal partners to develop, test and operationalize data science and analytical solutions as well as ensure its adoption by businesses.
• Work to leverage data (Transactional / Big Data, External/ Internal Data, Structured/ Unstructured Data) and analytics methods to develop analytics solutions

Qualifications

• 6‑8 years of experience, preferred
• BTech‑BE from Tier 1/2 engineering schools or MStat/MS (Math)/MA Econ/ MS Analytics/data science from Tier 1/2 schools
• Knowledge on CI/CD method of working and MLOps.
• Lead/Ideate Agentic AI, GenAI and Classic ML initiative in AICoE
• Design ML/LLM pipelines, good knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering.
• Monitor system performance, logs, retrieval quality and prompt‑effectiveness
• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable cloud functions using Python, FastAPI or Flask, and SQLModel/SQLAlchemy.
• Integrate microservices with ApigeeX for API management, security (authentication, authorization, rate limiting), monitoring, and analytics.
• Excellent Programming/ Data Wrangling skills with some languages like Python, R, Scala, Java, SQL
• Skills in areas like Agentic AI, GenAI, and some other traditional AI techniques like optimization, Statistics, Machine learning, NLP, Image/ Video, Speech analytics
• Good knowledge of some of the analytical platforms like GCP, Big Query, Google Cloud Storage, MS Azure, Google Looker, Databricks etc.
• Preferably good knowledge of Agile & SCRUM development processes

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills (oral, written and presentation)
• Highly driven, energetic, flexible & ability to multitask
• Ability to work with teams/ stakeholders to drive change/ adoption of analytics solutions

Candidates who are back‑to‑work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.