Senior Data Scientist

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Pleasanton, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 145K

Job location

Pleasanton, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data analysis
Computer Vision
Azure
Big Data
Google BigQuery
Cloud Computing
Databases
Continuous Integration
Data Validation
Data Cleansing
Information Engineering
Data Files
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
Hadoop
Python
PostgreSQL
Logistic Regression
Machine Learning
Microsoft SQL Server
MongoDB
MySQL
Natural Language Processing
Query Optimization
Power BI
TensorFlow
SQL Databases
Tableau
Data Processing
Feature Engineering
PyTorch
Flask
Random Forest
Spark
Model Validation
Keras
FastAPI
Matplotlib
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Cassandra
XGBoost
Plotly
Machine Learning Operations
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Docker
Databricks
Programming Languages

Job description

  • Frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch

  • CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers

  • Use cases: NLP, computer vision, time-series forecasting

  1. Data Wrangling & Preprocessing
  • Missing data handling

  • Feature engineering

  • Data cleaning

  • Outlier detection

  • Normalization/standardization

  1. Data Visualization & BI Tools
  • Python: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly

  • Tools: Tableau, Power BI

  • Dashboards, reporting, storytelling with data

  1. Big Data & Cloud Tools (Needed for production-scale roles)
  • Big Data Frameworks: Spark, Hadoop

  • Cloud Platforms (any one strongly):

o AWS (S3, EC2, SageMaker) o Azure (Data Factory, Databricks, ML Studio) o GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI)

  1. Deployment Skills (advanced roles)
  • Model deployment: Flask, FastAPI

  • Docker, Kubernetes (optional)

  • CI/CD basics

  1. Databases & Data Engineering Basics
  • Relational: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

  • NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra

  • Data pipelines: Airflow, Prefect (optional)

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Define the ML use case, success metrics, and evaluation criteria; Liaise with business directly and translate business needs into an ML approach.

  • Perform data exploration, data quality checks, feature engineering, and dataset preparation for training and testing.

  • Build, train, validate, and iterate ML models; compare experiments and select the best candidate model.

  • Package the solution f or production (e.g., containerized scoring/service endpoint) and support deployment with engineering/MLOps practices

  • Set up basic monitoring (model accuracy/health) and support continuous improvement post release. Required Skills & Experience

Requirements

  1. Programming Languages
  • Strong Python familiarity (hands on) for data prep, modeling, and building ML components.

  • SQL - Skills: joins, window functions, CTEs, query optimization

  1. Machine Learning
  • Linear/Logistic Regression

  • Decision Trees, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM

  • SVM, KNN

  • Model evaluation - Precision/Recall, F1, ROC-AUC, MSE, RMSE

  • Model tuning - Grid search, randomized search, cross validation, * Solid foundation in ML concepts (supervised/unsupervised, evaluation, validation) and practical experimentation.

  • Experience taking models to production in a cloud agnostic way (portable design; API/service mindset).

  • Working knowledge of version control and basic CI/CD-style collaboration with engineering teams., Qualifications : BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE You must create an Indeed account before continuing to the company website to apply

Benefits & conditions

Salary Range: $125,000-$145,000 a year TCS Employee Benefits Summary: Discretionary Annual Incentive. Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans. Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves. Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection. Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & amp; Training Reimbursement. Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

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