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Job Title: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru, India
Function: Enterprise Insights & Analytics | Global Business Services
Reports to: Manager Analytics
Works closely with: Reporting Teams, Data Engineers, Functional Stakeholders (Care, Commercial, Operations, Finance, Procurement)
Role Summary:
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Scientist who can both lead by example and serve as a functional bridge between business needs and advanced analytics. This role will be instrumental in building scalable data science solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and will mentor junior data scientists across varied domains such as Care, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Procurement.
This is a dual-role requiring strong modeling and engineering skills, as well as the ability to contextualize insights for business impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of ML models (predictive, prescriptive, and classification) using Python, TensorFlow, and Vertex AI
- Translate complex business problems into analytical solutions across commercial, care, operations, finance, and procurement domains
- Partner with functional teams to gather requirements, define use cases, and create KPIs aligned with business goals
- Guide and mentor junior data scientists on technical problem-solving, model development, and business storytelling
- Drive end-to-end model development and deployment pipelines using BigQuery, Vertex AI Workbench, GCS, and other GCP-native services
- Collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure data pipelines are robust, scalable, and efficient
- Participate in code reviews, model validations, and production tuning, ensuring reusability and consistency
- Communicate results effectively through dashboards, model explainability tools, or structured insight narratives
- Continuously evaluate and recommend new technologies or techniques that enhance model performance and delivery timelines
Technical Requirements:
- Strong programming skills in Python, including use of packages like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, and TensorFlow/Keras
- Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including:
- BigQuery for handling large-scale datasets
- Vertex AI for building, training, and serving models
- Cloud Storage, DataFlow, and Workflows for data orchestration
- Experience integrating ML pipelines with reporting tools such as Looker Studio or Tableau
- Solid data engineering mindset able to optimize data pipelines, feature stores, and model training data for scale
Business & Leadership Expectations:
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with functional leaders across Care, Commercial, Finance, and Ops to translate analytical outputs into business decisions
- Prior experience managing or mentoring a team of data scientists
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills both written and verbal
- High attention to detail and ability to manage ambiguity in business problems
- A structured approach to problem-solving and performance-driven mindset
Qualifications:
- 58 years of experience in data science roles with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity
- Bachelor's or Master's in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields
- Proven track record of deploying models to production and generating measurable impact
- Experience working in a global or shared services (GBS) environment is a plus
Core Competencies:
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship
- Functional Fluency across Business Domains
- Data Engineering & MLOps Excellence
- Business Communication & Storytelling
- Model Governance & Reusability
Category: TechnologyIron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here.Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.If you have a physical or mental disability that requires special accommodations, please let us know by sending an email to [HIDDEN TEXT]. See the Supplement to learn more about Equal Employment Opportunity.Iron Mountain is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law.To view the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law posters and the supplement, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement, CLICK HERE
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