Vodafoneidea

GM - Data Scientist

Vodafoneidea pune, Maharashtra, India

Telecommunications · 10,001+ employees

3 d ago
data-scientist Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

The General Manager will own the AI/ML roadmap and lead the technical strategy for large-scale telecom analytics, including predictive maintenance and LLM-based systems. They are responsible for leading data science teams, defining modeling frameworks, and ensuring robust model governance and explainability.

What they look for

AI/ML Roadmap Telecom Analytics Anomaly Detection RCA Automation Log Intelligence LLM Predictive Maintenance Python Deep Learning LSTM Transformers NLP MLOps MLflow Airflow Agentic AI

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a premier institution. The role requires extensive experience in advanced machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and MLOps, specifically within the telecom analytics domain.

Full description

Role

GM – Data Scientist

Job Level/ Designation

M3/GM

Function / Department

SNOC

Location

Pune

Job Purpose

Own the AI/ML roadmap and lead technical strategy for large-scale telecom analytics KPI prediction, anomaly detection, RCA automation, log intelligence, LLM-based systems, and predictive maintenance.

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

  • Define AI/ML architecture, modeling frameworks, and experimentation strategy.
  • Lead DS teams, review designs, experiments, and validations.
  • Architect ML systems for real-time diagnostics and forecasting.
  • Solve complex network behavior issues with spatial temporal ML.
  • Build scalable pipelines on enterprise VMs.
  • Translate network issues into ML solutions.
  • Own model governance, drift controls, and explain ability.

Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience

  • Advanced ML: probabilistic models, anomaly detection, clustering.
  • Deep Learning: LSTM, Transformers, embeddings.
  • NLP: log classification, embeddings, similarity search.
  • Math/Stats: optimization, time-series decomposition.
  • Programming: Python expert.
  • Telecom Analytics: KPI degradation, syslog/ISE analysis.
  • MLOps: MLflow, Airflow, onprem deployments.
  • GENAI, Agentic AI

Must have technical / professional qualifications

Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields from premier institutions (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges)

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