Telecom Analytics & ML Specialist

CelcomDigi Berhad; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CelcomDigi Berhad is seeking a Data Scientist to deliver high-impact analytics and machine learning solutions at scale for a leading telecom operator in Malaysia. You will own hands-on analytics, influence senior stakeholders, and grow into broader technical or leadership responsibilities.

You will work with data science, engineering, and analytics peers to model business opportunities, engineer features, and continuously improve models with new data sources and experimentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, computer science or related fields.
• Strong, demonstrable experience delivering analytics and machine learning projects end-to-end.
• Experience in the telecommunications industry is an advantage but not mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, R (or equivalent) and big data / distributed processing tools (e.g. Spark).
• Working knowledge of machine learning algorithms and classifiers.
• Strong communication, presentation, and analytical skills, with the ability to influence non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of advanced analytics and machine learning models to address key business opportunities and gaps.
• Partner with business stakeholders with minimal supervision, clearly communicating insights, assumptions, and model outcomes.
• Collaborate with peers across data science, engineering, and analytics teams on cross-functional problem solving.
• Continuously enhance models through feature engineering, new data sources, and experimentation to improve business performance.
• Contribute to setting best practices, standards, and re‑usable assets across the data science team.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well‑structured analytical approaches and recommend appropriate modelling techniques.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related fields

Tools

Python

SQL

R

Spark

Job description

CelcomDigi Berhad is seeking a Data Scientist to deliver high-impact analytics and machine learning solutions at scale for a leading telecom operator in Malaysia. You will own hands-on analytics, influence senior stakeholders, and grow into broader technical or leadership responsibilities.

You will work with data science, engineering, and analytics peers to model business opportunities, engineer features, and continuously improve models with new data sources and experimentation.