ROLE SUMMARY
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will lead the design, development, validation, and operationalization of machine learning and advanced analytics solutions that power intelligent products and business capabilities. This role combines solid hands-on expertise in model development with practical experience in MLOps, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
You will work closely with product managers, domain experts, engineers, architects, and platform teams to turn business problems into scalable, production-grade ML solutions. In addition to building models, you will guide feature engineering strategies, experimentation approaches, validation standards, and production-readiness practices to ensure models are reliable, explainable, and maintainable in real-world environments.
This role is ideal for someone who is equally comfortable developing models, operationalizing them in production, and mentoring others to raise the maturity of data science and ML engineering practices across the team..
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead the design, development, evaluation,



and deployment of machine learning models for predictive, classification, recommendation, anomaly detection, forecasting, and optimization use cases
Translate business and product requirements into well-defined analytical approaches, model strategies, feature sets, evaluation methods, and deployment plans
Build robust and reusable pipelines for data preparation, feature engineering, model training, validation, hyperparameter tuning, and model packaging
Develop and operationalize production-grade ML solutions with strong focus on reproducibility, maintainability, scalability, and measurable business impact
Partner with data engineers and software engineers to integrate models into applications, APIs, workflows, and downstream business systems
Design and implement MLOps practices including experiment tracking, model versioning, automated deployment, CI/CD for ML, monitoring, drift detection, retrainin

📌 Lead Data Scientist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ecolab
📍 Bengaluru