Lead Data Scientist

Job Title: Lead Data Scientist Company: Caterpillar Job Category: Data Science Roles & Responsibilities: Job Description We are seeking a skilled Lead Data Engineer (Lead Data Scientist) to join our Pricing Analytics – Enterprise Strategy \- Global Financial Division Team. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable data platforms, pipelines, and cloud solutions that power global pricing decisions. You will provide technical leadership to the team, solve complex data challenges, and ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and maintainable. Working with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders, you will set technical direction, develop engineering talent, and drive the delivery of high\-impact data and AI solutions. The preference for this role is to be based out of Chennai, India What You Will Do: * Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms, pipelines, and data products. * Set technical direction and establish engineering standards for the team. * Own delivery of complex data engineering initiatives from design through production. * Balance hands\-on development with technical leadership, design reviews, and code reviews. * Mentor engineers and help develop technical capabilities across the team. * Establish best practices for Python, Git, CI/CD, testing, data quality, and observability. * Partner with business and technical stakeholders to prioritize work and translate complex requirements into solutions. * Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, performance issues, and production challenges. Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they improve engineering effectiveness. * * What You Will Have: + Technical Leadership: Experience leading technical teams, projects, or major engineering initiatives. + Data Engineering: Extensive experience designing and building scalable production data platforms and pipelines. + Software Engineering: Strong Python development skills and modern software engineering practices. + Cloud Engineering: Experience architecting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions. + People Development: Ability to mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and grow team capabilities. + Business Partnership: Ability to influence stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and translate business problems into technical solutions. * Top Candidates Will Have: + Extensive experience in designing and developing software applications in Python. + Experience with AI assisted software development (ex. Github Copilot, Cursor, Codex, etc) + Extensive experience working with Git version control + Extensive experience deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Github Actions, Azure Devops etc. + Experience with AWS components such as Bedrock, Lambda, Fargate, S3, Sagemaker, IAM and RDS + Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle, etc. + Demonstrated strong learning ability and a proactive approach to staying current with the latest technologies and industry trends. + Demonstrated architecture experience + Experience leading teams + The position requires the candidate to work a 5\-a day \-week schedule in the office + Shift Timing: EMEA Shift :01:00PM \-10:00PM IST * Additional Details: + This position requires the candidate to be in Chennai, India + Relocation assistance is available for this position + Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position * Skills desired: + Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices. + Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy. + Productively balances speed and accuracy. + Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals. + Implements a variety of cross\-checking approaches and mechanisms. + Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards. Machine Learning: Knowledge of principles, technologies and algorithms of machine learning; ability to develop, implement and deliver related systems, products and services. + Participates in the implementation and support of specialized programming languages. + Conducts basic reviews on writing a specific programming language within a specific platform. + Assists with the design and development of specialized programming languages. + Follows an organization's standards, policies and guidelines for structured programming specifications. + Diagnoses and reports minor or routine programming language problems. Query and Database Access Tools: Knowledge of data management systems; ability to use, support and access facilities for searching, extracting and formatting data for further use. + Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements. + Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis. + Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements. + Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements. + Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.What you will get: + Work Life Harmony + Earned and medical leave. + Relocation assistance * Holistic Development + Personal and professional development through Caterpillar ‘s employee resource groups across the globe + Career developments opportunities with global prospects * Health and Wellness + Medical coverage \-Medical, life and personal accident coverage + Employee mental wellness assistance program * Financial Wellness + Employee investment plan + Pay for performance \-Annual incentive Bonus plan. * Additional Information:Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers Work Location: Tamil Nadu, India Availability: Full time

Level Extensive Experience: Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non\-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. Key Skills: Python, Statistics, Machine Learning Salary: Not disclosed