Lead D&T Data Scientist

General Mills, Inc.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills, Inc. in Mumbai is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive AI/ML strategy, mentor a team of data scientists, and partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable ML solutions. The role covers ideation to production, leveraging Vertex AI on GCP and strong ML Ops practices.

The candidate will guide model deployment, monitor performance, and stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring high-impact results in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience with 8+ years delivering data science solutions.
• Proven skills leading AI solution implementations and mentoring teams.
• Expertise in supervised ML, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency on GCP, SQL, Python, Spark, and TensorFlow; ML Ops and containerization.
• Experience with agile development, stakeholder management, and storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive AI/ML strategy aligned with business goals.
• Lead model development from ideation to production deployment.
• Mentor data scientists and foster an innovative team environment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver valuable AI solutions and ensure scalable deployment.
• Oversee ML lifecycle, including post-production monitoring and maintenance.

Skills

AI strategy

ML modelling

Python

SQL

TensorFlow

Spark

GCP Vertex AI

ML Ops

Containerization

Data visualization

Stakeholder storytelling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/technology

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Vertex AI

BQ / BigQuery

Composer

Cloud Storage

Job description

**OVERVIEW**General Mills, Digital and Technology India, is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join our dynamic and innovative Data Science team. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in shaping our AI and machine learning strategies, managing model development projects, AI technical explorations and mentoring our talented team of data scientists. The ideal candidate will have expertise in AI platforms, ML modelling techniques, development life cycle, GCP Vertex AI, and a proven track record of successful AI solution delivery.**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES****AI and ML strategy:*** Develop and implement AI and ML strategies aligned with business objectives.* Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our strategies remain cutting-edge.* Constructively challenge the other data scientists on approach* Utilize and provide expertise in leading AI platforms, frameworks, and libraries.* Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance our machine learning capabilities.**Lead the AI solutions deliver:*** Partners with business stakeholders to deliver value add insights and intelligent solutions through ML and AI. Collaborates with ML engineers and systems engineers to ensure the models are deployed in a scaled and optimized way. Additionally ensure support the post-production to ensure model performance degrades are proactively managed.* Is considered an expert in at least one of functional areas; brings together business knowledge, resources, people, and technology to create more effective solutions**Model development and Explorations:*** Lead and contribute to the development of machine learning models from ideation to production deployment.* Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform's Vertex AI for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.* Oversee the entire development life cycle of AI solutions including MLOps practices, ensuring high-quality and scalable deliverables.* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning solutions into existing products or processes.* Lead explorations for AI techniques, platforms and tools.**AI Literacy and Mentorship:*** Mentor and guide a team of data scientists in approach for AI solution delivery.* Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.* Contribute to the overall effort to educate stakeholders on AI practices.* Closely collaborates with the stakeholders on projects and data science leaders to ensure practices are developed and enhanced to support accelerated analytic development and maintainability.**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS*** Overall 12+yrs of Industry experience with 8+ years in providing data science solutions.* Bachelor’s degree in engineering/ technology* Proven skills in leading implementations of AI solutions.* Experienced in providing technical mentorship.* Expertise in supervised ML algorithms, optimization, and performance tuning.* Technical Platform- include proficiency on Google Cloud Platform, SQL, Python, spark, Tensorflow.* Technical Concepts- ML Ops, Containerization, Data Lineage and Visualization.* Experience working with an Agile development methodology featuring sprints, point estimation and daily stand-ups.* Excellent stakeholder management skills and storytelling skills.* Expert level skill set - AI solutions architecture, Python, SQL. Google Cloud Platform – Vertex AI, BQ, Composer, Cloud Storage supervised algorithms.* Intermediate Level Skill set - ML Ops, GCP cloud architecture, At Scale & Alation and Deep Learning**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS*** Prior experience with CPG/ Retail industry.* Publications or contributions to the data science and AI community.* Certifications in AI, machine learning, or related fields.