Data Scientist

Optum is hiring a Data Scientist in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, India. The details below summarise the employer's own listing; applications happen on the original posting, not on GetFirstJob.

What the work involves

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable AI/ML solutions, leveraging Python, SQL, pandas, numpy, and modern ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ScikitLearn)
• Lead the predictive maintenance practice for critical medical imaging equipment (MRI and CT Scanners)
• Experience with streaming data, IOT architectures and tools, Edge devices and Systems integration
• Oversee endtoend ML workflowsfrom data preparation, feature engineering, EDA, and model development to evaluation, deployment, and continuous monitoring
• Guide model selection, optimization, and tuning, ensuring solutions balance performance, explainability, cost, and Responsible AI principles
• Build and maintain productiongrade ML pipelines with orchestration and experimenttracking tools such as MLflow, Feature Stores, ONNX, and vector databases
• Lead drift analysis, observability, and model health monitoring to ensure ongoing accuracy, reliability, and robustness in production environments
• Design and support scalable, multicloud ML infrastructure (Azure/GCP primary, AWS optional), incorporating best practices for compute, storage, networking, and distributed data processing
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to integrate realtime and batch pipelines built on Synapse/BigQuery, Dataflow/Databricks, and Kafka/EventHub/PubSub
• Work closely with engineering, product, data science, and UX to translate business

What they are looking for

• into actionable technical solutions and architecture patterns
• Review and guide the creation of architecture diagrams, C4 models, ADRs, and technical specifications as part of engineering governance
• Mentor and coach data scientists and ML engineers on best practices in model development, experimentation, coding standards, optimization, and cloudnative ML deployment
• Ensure ML systems meet high standards of scalability, security, reliability, automation, observability, and operational excellence
• Collaborate with frontend teams where needed to ensure ML components integrate seamlessly with product workflows and user-facing experiences
• Stay current with emerging AI/ML tools, frameworks, and research
• evaluate applicability to current and future projects
• Communicate technical concepts, design trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including leadership

Pay and dates

The listed pay is 25-40 Lacs P.A.. The source page shows a relative posting age rather than an exact posting date; this role was first seen and checked as open on 4 November 2026. The source page showed it as posted “1 week ago” when captured; that is a relative stamp, not an exact date.

How to apply

Apply on the listing where the employer published this role: Data Scientist at Optum. We found this listing via naukri.com; it was still open when we checked on 4 November 2026. If the posting has closed or the link fails, the role may have been filled.