Data Scientist II

Your role and responsibilities

• Design, train, and validate machine learning models to solve real-world business problems in the FinOps/TBM space
• Develop and productionize models in collaboration with software engineering teams
• Leverage large-scale data from cloud providers, IT systems, and financial platforms to identify trends and optimization opportunities
• Explore and experiment with LLMs, NLP, and generative AI techniques to improve user experiences, reporting, and automation
• Partner closely with product managers, data engineers, and UX designers to shape intelligent product features
• Communicate insights and model behavior to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Required education

None

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in a data science or machine learning role
• Proficiency in Python and experience with common libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, pandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Familiarity with generative AI, LLMs, or NLP
• Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals, model evaluation, and statistical methods
• Experience working with large datasets and SQL-based environments
• Comfort working across the full ML lifecycle-from experimentation to deployment and monitoring
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with cloud cost optimization, FinOps, or enterprise financial platforms
• Knowledge of MLOps practices and tools (e.g., MLflow, SageMaker, Airflow)
• Familiarity with Apptio products (ApptioOne, Cloudability, Targetprocess)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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