Data Scientist

IDP Education Pty Ltd.; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IDP Education Services India LLP in Chennai is seeking a Data Scientist to collaborate with Data Engineering and Governance, building predictive models and deploying them into production. You will work on decision problems with measurable business impact and leverage GenAI to automate knowledge workflows.

The role requires experience with event-driven architectures, serverless computing, AWS, and LLMs, and offers opportunities to influence business outcomes in a global education services

Qualifications

• Event-driven architectures and serverless computing experience.
• Hands-on knowledge of LLMs and cloud AI services.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform and related services.
• Familiarity with deploying in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Identify decision problems where modelling creates measurable value.
• Prepare production-ready datasets, build and validate predictive models.
• Deploy models into production pipelines and monitor performance.
• Translate outputs into quantified business impact.
• Ensure cost-aware and efficient model design.
• Influence adoption by enabling stakeholders to act on insights.
• Apply GenAI / Agentic AI for automation and decision support.

Skills

Event-driven architectures

Serverless computing

LLMs knowledge

AWS cloud platform

Tools

AWS

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Data Scientist

Location: Chennai, TN, IN

Company: IDP Education Services India LLP

Requisition ID: 3996

About IDP

IDP is the global leader in international education services, delivering global success to students, test takers and our partners, through trusted human relationships, digital technology and customer research. An Australian-listed company, we operate in more than 50 countries around the world.

Our team is comprised of over 7,000 people of various nationalities, ages and cultural backgrounds. Proudly customer-first, our expert people are powered by global technology. Together, we offer unmatched services, helping local dreams become realities, all over the world.

In this role you will be collaborating with IDP’s Data Engineering and Governance, an enterprise capability team and be responsible for: -

Data Scientist — Responsibilities

Core

• Identify decision problems where modelling creates measurable value
• Prepare production-ready datasets, build and validate predictive / statistical models, and drive data-driven experimentation
• Deploy models into production pipelines, and monitor performance, drift, and retraining needs
• Translate outputs into quantified business impact (revenue, risk, cost)
• Ensure cost-aware and efficient model design (compute, data, and operational efficiency)
• Influence adoption by enabling stakeholders to act on model-driven insights
• Apply GenAI / Agentic AI for automation, decision augmentation, or knowledge workflows

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Take responsibility for Outcomes

You love technology, are continuously learning and extending your knowledge of best practice and the business value of technology innovations

Required experience

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Core

• Event-driven architectures
• Serverless computing
• AWS cloud platform
• Working knowledge of LLMs (AWS managed services, OpenAI APIs)