Principal Data Scientist

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Principal Data Scientist Chennai, IND Summary: In new product design roles: develops and programs integrated software algorithms to structure, analyze and leverage data in product and systems applications in both structured and unstructured environments. Develops and communicates descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights/algorithms. In product/systems improvement projects Duties & Responsibilities: Principal Data Scientist - VIAVI Solutions Overview: VIAVI Solutions is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead the data science and MLOps strategy for our next-generation NITRO AIOps 2.0 platform. This role is critical in shaping the platform's intelligence layer, ensuring robust, scalable, and production-ready AI/ML capabilities that support cross-domain network assurance, automation, and analytics for global telecom operators. As a senior technical leader, you will guide both the algorithmic direction and the deployment architecture of AI/ML solutions. You will collaborate across R&D, product management, and customer-facing teams to ensure that data science initiatives align with business goals and are seamlessly integrated into the platform's architecture. Key Responsibilities: Lead the design and implementation of AI/ML models for anomaly detection, forecasting, and incident prediction. Architect and optimize MLOps pipelines for scalable, automated model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring. Select and evaluate appropriate algorithms and statistical methods for diverse telecom data sets. Define best practices for data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model interpretability. Collaborate with software architects to integrate ML models into a cloud-native, microservices-based platform. Guide the selection and integration of MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow , Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI). Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance across the ML lifecycle. Mentor

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