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Role purpose
You'll Spend Time On The Following
In this role you will be collaborating with IDP's Data Engineering and Governance, an enterprise capability team and be responsible for: -
Data Scientist — Responsibilities
Core
Identify decision problems where modelling creates measurable value
Prepare production-ready datasets, build and validate predictive / statistical models, and drive data-driven experimentation
Deploy models into production pipelines,



and monitor performance, drift, and retraining needs
Translate outputs into quantified business impact (revenue, risk, cost)
Ensure cost-aware and effective model design (compute, data, and operational efficiency)
Influence adoption by enabling stakeholders to act on model-driven insights
Desirable
~ Apply GenAI / Agentic AI for automation, decision augmentation, or knowledge workflows

Take responsibility for Outcomes
You love technology, are continuously learning and extending your knowledge of best practice and the business value of technology innovations
Required Experience
Here's what we're looking for:
Technology Skills
Core
Python

SQL

Event-driven architectures
Serverless computing
Databases: PostgreSQL
AWS cloud platform
Working knowledge of LLMs (AWS managed services, OpenAI APIs)
Desirable
Agent / orchestration frameworks
Vector and Graph databases

📌 Data Scientist SQL/python (Chennai)
🏢 IDP Education
📍 Chennai