Data Science and Machine Learning Specialist

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title: Data Science and Machine Learning Specialist

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid (4 Days work From Office)

Position Description

• Employees in this job function apply data science, machine learning, advanced analytics, and Agentic AI to turn data into actionable insights and scalable solutions.
• They work closely with business and technology teams to understand real-world needs, develop and deploy intelligent systems, and measure their impact.
• Using a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) approach, they bring technical solutions closer to users and operational environments—adapting them to practical workflows, constraints, and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, and end users to understand problems, define success measures, and translate requirements into data science, machine learning, or AI solutions.
• Explore and prepare structured and unstructured datasets; assess data quality, identify relevant signals, and determine appropriate analytical methods and technologies.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy statistical models, machine learning algorithms, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and experiments to support data-driven decisions.
• Build and evaluate Agentic AI solutions, including agents and multi-agent workflows that can reason, use tools, retrieve information, and complete tasks under appropriate human oversight and safeguards.
• Apply FDE practices by working directly with users and operational teams to prototype, integrate, validate, and improve solutions in their real-world environments.
• Develop scalable and reliable data and AI workflows, including data ingestion, augmentation, feature engineering, model evaluation, orchestration, monitoring, and automation.
• Assess solutions for accuracy, robustness, security, privacy, fairness, explainability, and operational readiness; establish appropriate testing, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Communicate findings, model behavior, limitations, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, enabling informed decisions and responsible adoption.
• Stay current with advances in data science, machine learning, generative and Agentic AI, analytics platforms, and engineering practices; identify opportunities to improve solution quality, efficiency, and business value.

Skills Required

• Data Science & Machine Learning, Agentic AI, GCP

Skills Preferred

• AI

Experience Required

• Specialist Exp: 5+ experience in relevant field

Experience Preferred

• Adept in AI Agent adoption

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information

• Build reusable analytics and AI capabilities across microservices and data products.
• Partner with data teams to ensure data quality, ownership, and trusted metrics.
• Choose the simplest effective approach—dashboards, analytics, ML, GenAI, or agents—for each business problem.
• Use AI tools to accelerate analysis and development, while validating their outputs.
• Integrate solutions into production workflows with engineering teams.
• Measure adoption, business impact, and ongoing model or agent performance.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.