Senior Data Science Specialist

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Senior Data Science Specialist

Date: 8 Jun 2026 Custom Field 2: 14559 Employment Type: Permanent City: CelcomDigi Tower, Petaling Jay Description:

Job Description

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a key role in delivering high-impact analytics and machine learning solutions at scale for a leading telecom operator. You’ll work on complex, real-world problems, influence business decisions, and help shape how advanced analytics is embedded across the organisation.

This role offers hands-on ownership, exposure to senior stakeholders, and the opportunity to grow into broader technical or leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of advanced analytics and machine learning models to address key business opportunities and gaps.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-structured analytical approaches and recommend appropriate modelling techniques.
• Partner with business stakeholders with minimal supervision, clearly communicating insights, assumptions, and model outcomes.
• Collaborate with peers across data science, engineering, and analytics teams on cross-functional problem solving.
• Continuously enhance models through feature engineering, new data sources, and experimentation to improve business performance.
• Contribute to setting best practices, standards, and re-usable assets across the data science team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related fields.
• Strong, demonstrable experience delivering analytics and machine learning projects end-to-end.
• Experience in the telecommunications industry is an advantage but not mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, R (or equivalent) and big data / distributed processing tools (e.g. Spark).
• Working knowledge of machine learning algorithms and classifiers.
• Strong communication, presentation, and analytical skills, with the ability to influence non-technical stakeholders.

Business Unit: CONSUMER BUSINESS

Job Description

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a key role in delivering high-impact analytics and machine learning solutions at scale for a leading telecom operator. You’ll work on complex, real-world problems, influence business decisions, and help shape how advanced analytics is embedded across the organisation.

This role offers hands-on ownership, exposure to senior stakeholders, and the opportunity to grow into broader technical or leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of advanced analytics and machine learning models to address key business opportunities and gaps.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-structured analytical approaches and recommend appropriate modelling techniques.
• Partner with business stakeholders with minimal supervision, clearly communicating insights, assumptions, and model outcomes.
• Collaborate with peers across data science, engineering, and analytics teams on cross-functional problem solving.
• Continuously enhance models through feature engineering, new data sources, and experimentation to improve business performance.
• Contribute to setting best practices, standards, and re-usable assets across the data science team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related fields.
• Strong, demonstrable experience delivering analytics and machine learning projects end-to-end.
• Experience in the telecommunications industry is an advantage but not mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, R (or equivalent) and big data / distributed processing tools (e.g. Spark).
• Working knowledge of machine learning algorithms and classifiers.
• Strong communication, presentation, and analytical skills, with the ability to influence non-technical stakeholders.

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Next Steps

Thank you for taking the first step towards joining our team at CelcomDigi! After submitting your application, our Talent Acquisition team will review your CV and reach out to shortlisted candidates to guide you through the next steps, including a pre-screening conversation, interviews and or assessments.

At CelcomDigi, we aspire to be Malaysia’s leading telco-tech company — the nation’s digital growth engine — powering transformation through 5G, AI, and innovation that impacts over 20 million customers. Here, your role goes beyond work. It’s about enabling businesses to thrive, connecting communities, and advancing society, as we build a brand rooted in trust, reliability and customer excellence. Aligned with our employer value proposition, Grow with Purpose. Build with Trust, you’ll have the opportunity to innovate responsibly and create digital solutions that truly make a difference. If you're driven, future focused, and ready to be part of something bigger, we want you on our team.

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