Citizen Data Science Specialist

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What role you will play in our team:

We are seeking a Citizen Data Science SME to lead the development and scaling of enterprise-wide standards, governance, and best practices for low-code and AutoML-driven analytics.

This role will act as a strategic enabler and technical authority, responsible for building a robust Citizen Data Science capability across the organization. The SME will drive adoption of low-code analytics platforms, establish reusable frameworks, and ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable, and governed analytical solutions.

The role will partner closely with business, data engineering, IT, and vendor teams to incubate new analytics capabilities, lead proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, and upskill a growing community of Citizen Data Scientists.

The role will be based in Bengaluru, Whitefield and is a full-time office-based position.

What you will do

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluating Business Processes: Identifying opportunities for automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Define and implement enterprise standards, best practices, and governance frameworks for Citizen Data Science
• Lead tooling strategy and platform adoption (e.g., Dataiku, Alteryx, Power Platform, AutoML tools)
• Drive and oversee POCs, pilots, and vendor incubation projects to evaluate and scale new capabilities
• Develop reusable templates, workflows, and accelerators for low-code analytics
• Establish model lifecycle practices (development, validation, deployment, monitoring) within low-code platforms
• Train, mentor, and upskill Citizen Data Scientists across business units
• Partner with data engineering and IT to ensure integration, scalability, and compliance
• Act as a bridge between business and technical teams, translating use cases into actionable analytics solutions

About You

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Core Technical Skills

• Strong experience with low-code/no-code data science platforms: (e.g. Dataiku, Alteryx, KNIME, Power Platform, or similar)
• Familiarity with AutoML and model development concepts
• Data preparation, transformation, and feature engineering
• Understanding of ML lifecycle (MLOps concepts in low-code context)
• SQL proficiency (required); Python/R (working knowledge preferred but not mandatory)

Data & Analytics Skills:

• Predictive modeling, forecasting, segmentation, and optimization
• Data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)
• Data pipeline and workflow automation

Governance & Framework Design:

• Experience defining: Best practices, Reusable frameworks, Model governance standards
• Risk and compliance guardrails

Soft / Leadership Skills:

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Ability to train and enable non-technical users
• Strategic thinking with execution focus
• Excellent communication: translating complex analytics into business value

 Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience building or scaling a Citizen Data Science program or CoE
• Prior experience with enterprise data governance, model risk management, or regulated environments
• Exposure to cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their ML/analytics services
• Experience integrating low-code solutions into production pipelines
• Background in training, curriculum development, or community enablement
• Knowledge of MLOps, Responsible AI, and model monitoring practices
• Consulting or strategy experience in analytics transformation initiatives
• Pandas and scikit-learn, XGBoost / LightGBM, PyTorch or TensorFlow for advanced use cases, Azure ML and Azure Databricks / Spark, MLOps
• Build machine learning models in Python using popular machine learning libraries NumPy & scikit-learn
• Build & train supervised machine learning models for prediction & binary classification tasks, including linear regression & logistic regression
• Python, scikit-learn (Classical ML), PyTorch, TensorFlow (Deep Neural networks) (Libraries inside the python), Databricks, and Spark
• Has personally developed a predictive model/advanced analytics model evaluation metrics like regression, timeseries, forecasting etc.  
• Strong SQL experience, Power BI or equivalent visualization experience
• Has developed AI/ML solutions

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