GM - Data Scientist

Vodafone Idea Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone Idea Limited in Pune seeks an AI/ML leader to own the roadmap and drive technical strategy for large-scale telecom analytics KPI prediction, anomaly detection, RCA automation, log intelligence, LLM-based systems, and predictive maintenance.

You will mentor DS teams, define architecture, and build scalable pipelines on enterprise infrastructure, ensuring governance and explainability of models across on-prem deployments and cloud integrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering or related field from premier institutes.
• Experience leading DS teams and architecting scalable ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Own AI/ML roadmap and architecture for telecom analytics.
• Lead DS teams, review designs, experiments, and validations.
• Architect ML systems for real-time diagnostics and forecasting.
• Translate network issues into ML solutions.
• Ensure model governance and drift controls.

Skills

Probabilistic ML

Anomaly Detection

Time Series

NLP

Deep Learning

Transformers

Embeddings

MLOps

GenAI

Agentic AI

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

MLflow

Airflow

Job description

Job Purpose

Own the AI/ML roadmap and lead technical strategy for large-scale telecom analytics KPI prediction, anomaly detection, RCA automation, log intelligence, LLM-based systems, and predictive maintenance.

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

• Define AI/ML architecture, modeling frameworks, and experimentation strategy.
• Lead DS teams, review designs, experiments, and validations.
• Architect ML systems for real-time diagnostics and forecasting.
• Solve complex network behavior issues with spatialtemporal ML.
• Build scalable pipelines on enterprise VMs.
• Translate network issues into ML solutions.
• Own model governance, drift controls, and explain ability.

Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience

• Advanced ML: probabilistic models, anomaly detection, clustering.
• Deep Learning: LSTM, Transformers, embeddings.
• NLP: log classification, embeddings, similarity search.
• Math/Stats: optimization, time-series decomposition.
• Programming: Python expert.
• Telecom Analytics: KPI degradation, syslog/ISE analysis.
• MLOps: MLflow, Airflow, onprem deployments.
• GENAI, Agentic AI

Must have technical / professional qualifications

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields from premier institutions (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges)