Vodafone Idea Limited is an Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group partnership. It is India's leading telecom service provider. The Company provides pan India Voice and Data services across 2G, 3G and 4G platform. With the large spectrum portfolio to support the growing demand for data and voice, the company is committed to deliver delightful customer experiences and contribute towards creating a truly Digital India by enabling millions of citizens to connect and build a better tomorrow. The Company is developing infrastructure to introduce newer and smarter technologies, making both retail and enterprise customers future ready with innovative offerings, conveniently accessible through an ecosystem of digital channels as well as extensive on-ground presence. The Company is listed on National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India.

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VIL's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our Values of Passion, Boldness, Trust, Speed and Digital. Consequently, our recruiting efforts are directed towards attracting and retaining best and brightest talents. Our endeavour is to be First Choice for prospective employees.

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VIL is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce.

Role	Senior Data Scientist
Job Level/ Designation	M3/GM - Senior Data Scientist
Years of Experience	7 - 15 years of relevant work experience
Function / Department	Big Data and Advanced Analytics - Marketing
Location	Mumbai Corporate
Reporting	VP - Big Data & Advanced Analytics, Marketing
Job Purpose	1. Create business models to impact the revenue and ARPU of the customers using Predictive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud technologies by managing a team of data scientist. 2. Hands on expertise in Predictive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud technologies. 3. Architect and implement cutting-edge Generative AI solutions and autonomous Agentic AI frameworks to automate complex customer and operational workflows 4. Interacting with key Business Stakeholders & identifying pain points. 5. Building Data Science approach & roadmap for identified business problem statement. 6. Construct, optimise, and maintain robust data pipelines and production-grade ML pipelines (MLOps) for real-time and batch processing. 7. Work closely with data engineers to transform massive, unstructured telecom datasets into clean feature stores. Cloud Architecture & Systems 8. Expertise in writing efficient, modularized and standardized code in python and R 8. Experience of working with AWS tools and technologies is preferred. 9. In depth understanding of Feature engineering and selection approaches, Segmentation or stratified analyses, anomaly detection, pattern detection and data transformation approaches. Classification Machine/Deep Learning - Algorithm Evaluation, Dataset Preparation. 10. Excellent understanding of version control and best practices. 11. People's person, while being great team member exhibits mentoring attitude 12. Well versed with writing efficient SQL scripts for data acquisition and data aggregation 13. Experience 2-3 Managing & mentoring a team of Data Scientist & Task Allocation
Key Result Areas/Accountabilities	1. Self-Starter, Motivated, organize, and excellent communicator 2. Compulsorily being Hands-on 3. Persistence and ability to think logically and independently 4. Quick learner and adapting to changingbusiness needs
Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience	Proven expertise with a variety of Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques across structured and unstructured data sets Strong hands on proficiency in statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. Python, R, Spark, SQL, Visualization tools) Cloud Computing & Architectural Planning - AWS ( EC2, S3,EMR,etc) Deep Learning Frameworks: Caffe, Keras, Theano, Tensorflow, or Torch Experience working on Big Data technologies (e.g. Hadoop MR, Hive, NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, Graph Databases etc.) Experience in development of interactive dashboards or visualization Javascript and JavaScript libraries, ggplot, Shiny apps, etc. Self-Starter, Motivated, organize, and excellent communicator Ability to work in cross functional teams to translate business issues into potential analytics solutions Good Problem solving & Analytical Skills Quick learner and adapting to changing business needs
Must have technical / professional qualifications	1. Graduate or Master's degree or PHD in Statistics or Economics or Engineering or a quantitative discipline from top ranked universities with exposure to AI/ ML/ Data Mining 2. Any Certification in Machine Learning / Deep Learning - Artificial Intelligence / Data Science 3. Preferred Certifications in AI/ML and AWS Cloud

Vodafone Idea Limited(formerly Idea Cellular Limited)
An Aditya Birla Group & Vodafone partnership

GM - Data Scientist