Lead Data Scientist

adesso orange AG; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

adesso India seeks an experienced Lead Data Scientist to drive enterprise AI initiatives across ML, GenAI, and recommender systems. You will architect scalable platforms, mentor teams, and collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to deliver secure, production-ready AI solutions.

The role emphasizes design leadership, model governance, and strong stakeholder collaboration within an agile environment on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Data Science/AI, with 5+ years deploying enterprise ML solutions.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end AI initiatives from concept to production.
• Mentoring technical teams and delivering AI solutions on enterprise cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ML solutions from ideation to production.
• Design scalable ML pipelines and enterprise ML platforms on cloud.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive analytics models.
• Architect GenAI solutions and RAG workflows.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering for data quality and governance.
• Deploy models via APIs/microservices with CI/CD.

Skills

ML & AI Expertise

Recommender Systems

Generative AI

Data Engineering Understanding

Stakeholder Management

Education

B.Tech/B.S./M.S. in Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics

Tools

Azure ML

Databricks

Spark

Hadoop

OpenAI

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Scientist with strong expertise in Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Generative AI (LLM & Large Vision Models). The role provides technical leadership in designing, developing, deploying, and scaling enterprise AI solutions while collaborating closely with Data Engineering, ML Engineering, Platform Engineering, and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate will drive AI solution architecture, mentor technical teams, establish best practices, and ensure scalable, secure, production-ready AI implementations.

Key Responsibilities

Data Science & Advanced Analytics — Lead end-to-end ML solutions from ideation to production. Drive EDA, feature engineering, model evaluation, and optimization. Develop predictive and prescriptive analytics models. Translate business problems into scalable AI/data science solutions.

Machine Learning Services (Primary Focus) — Design and implement scalable ML pipelines for training, testing, and deployment. Architect enterprise ML platforms using Azure Machine Learning, AWS SageMaker, or Google Vertex AI. Define model lifecycle management (versioning, monitoring, retraining, governance). Optimize models for performance, scalability, and reliability.

Recommender Systems — Lead design of recommendation engines (collaborative filtering, content-based, hybrid). Design ranking, personalization, and segmentation strategies. Define evaluation metrics (Precision@K, Recall@K, MAP, NDCG). Guide scalable recommendation architectures.

Generative AI (LLM & LVM) — Design enterprise GenAI solutions (chatbots, copilots, document intelligence). Architect RAG solutions using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or Hugging Face models. Design use cases for text generation, summarization, classification, and image/video understanding. Lead prompt engineering and LLM optimization.

Collaboration with Data Engineering — Define data requirements, ensure data quality, governance, and availability. Work with Spark, Databricks, Hadoop.

ML Engineering & Deployment Support — Deploy models via APIs/microservices, containerize (Docker, Kubernetes), and integrate into production systems and CI/CD pipelines.

Model Monitoring & Governance — Monitor model drift, performance degradation, and bias. Implement logging, alerting, explainability tools, and Responsible AI practices (fairness, transparency, interpretability).

Qualifications & Experience

8+ years in Data Science, ML, AI, or Advanced Analytics, with 5+ years hands‑on deploying enterprise ML solutions. Proven experience leading end-to-end AI initiatives from concept to production, designing scalable AI architectures, mentoring technical teams, and delivering AI solutions in Agile environments on enterprise cloud platforms.

YOUR PROFILE

Education: B.Tech/B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field.

Technical Skills

ML & AI Expertise: Supervised & Unsupervised Learning, model optimization, hands‑on experience with ML platforms/services.

Recommender Systems: Designing and deploying recommendation engines; knowledge of ranking algorithms and personalization.

Generative AI: LLMs (GPT, Llama, etc.), prompt engineering, RAG frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex). Exposure to multimodal AI (LVM) is a strong plus.

Data Engineering Understanding: Data pipelines, ETL processes, data warehousing concepts.

Additional Skills & Preferred Qualifications

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Self‑motivated, customer‑focused, detail‑oriented. Azure ecosystem experience (Azure ML, Databricks) preferred. Exposure to real‑time data processing. ML/AI/Cloud certifications a plus. SAP ERP knowledge strongly preferred. Six Sigma or ITIL certification a plus.

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