Job Description Summary

Lead Data Scientist
The Lead Data Scientist is a critical position for understanding of the current state of BD’s product performance, quality system performance and regulatory compliance standards. They will work with Global Process Owners Global Process Owners to define key metrics and targets for their Quality System Element. As well as working with other key stakeholders to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive analytical solutions, create efficiencies, execute metrics ensuring processes are in control and identifying root causes to prevent product defects. They proactively demonstrate leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with stakeholder while mentoring & training a team of 3 data scientist based in India. In this role, you will oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of traditional & generative AI models and applications that create high-quality and diverse content across various domains and modalities.

Job Description

Lead Data Scientist

The Lead Data Scientist is a critical position for understanding of the current state of BD’s product performance, quality system performance and regulatory compliance standards. They will work with Global Process Owners Global Process Owners to define key metrics and targets for their Quality System Element. As well as working with other key stakeholders to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive analytical solutions, create efficiencies, execute metrics ensuring processes are in control and identifying root causes to prevent product defects.  They proactively demonstrate leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with stakeholder while mentoring & training a team of 3 data scientist based in India. In this role, you will oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of traditional & generative AI models and applications that create high-quality and diverse content across various domains and modalities.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy: Develop and complete a data science strategy which is a part of the larger Digital Analytics Data Strategy aligned with Central Quality’s goals and objectives
• Understand Quality business problems and design end-to-end data science use cases to meet stakeholder needs, while developing business case demonstrating the value add
• Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning. Mentor and develop team members, providing guidance and support to help them reach their full potential.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with other departments within Quality, the different business units and across the corporate enterprise to identify product and operational opportunities for data-driven improvements and efficiencies.
• Work closely with TGS partners to build or implement 3rd party solutions to accommodate business needs i.e. Central Quality Lead for Deployment of Databricks ML OPS environment.
• Lead and manage AI initiatives, providing guidance and direction on best practices and techniques with a specific focus on managing AI Ops technologies and architecture (how do we setup a standard for model creation, evaluation, design & integration into our platforms).
• Develop and Execute on Playbook that establish a standard framework around Data Models from Intake through to ongoing monitoring of data science models in production.
• Ensure technical documentation is written and maintained for AI products/projects
• Hands on development and testing related to AI solutions (python experience required)
• Data Integration: Be responsible for the integration of data from various sources, both internal and external, to create a unified view to meet business needs.  
• Increase Data Literacy by holding workshops and guiding quality organization about the business potential and strategy of artificial intelligence (AI)/data science.
• Promote collaboration and knowledge exchange with other data science teams within and outside BD
• Communicate the design, development, and deployment processes and results of generative AI products/projects to Quality GPO’s and stakeholders
• Collaborate with other Data Science developers, researchers, and stakeholders to integrate generative AI solutions with other AI components and platforms
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team, encouraging the exploration and adoption of new techniques and technologies.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, partners, and internal teams, to ensure the successful delivery of AI solutions.

Qualifications:

• Management Experience
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Domain expertise – experience working on AI projects/products related to the medical device industry
• 5 years experience in the following:
• working in the AI/ML space in a hands-on manner
• Python development
• working with frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, etc
• data modeling and engineering
• creating & evaluating machine learning models
• working with AI Deployment and DevOps features, such as containerization, pipelines, and infrastructure as code (i.e Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker, etc)
• working with the cognitive services suite available in Azure (i.e cognitive search, document intelligence, Azure machine learning, etc)
• working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Foundational understanding of LLMs and associated frameworks (i.e langchain)
• Experience with Azure OpenAI & DataBricks is preferred
• Strong knowledge and understanding of generative AI techniques and algorithms (i.e retrieval augmented generation)
• Working knowledge in DevOps procedures and data engineering
• Ability to design and architect scalable and robust  AI systems and applications
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Passionate and curious about generative AI and its applications
• Experience in a pharmaceutical, medical device or other regulated field a plus
• Strong background writing technical documentation as it relates to AI

Primary Work Location

IND Bengaluru - Technology Campus

Additional Locations

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