About the role

Senior Generative AI & Agentic Systems Data Scientist in Solvay's Digital Enablement team focusing on AIs and Machine Learning solutions. Collaborating across teams to innovate and enhance AI-driven solutions for business challenges.

Responsibilities

You will work on Machine Learning (ML), Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and especially cutting-edge Agentic AI technologies in Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
Explore and implement Agentic AI frameworks to enable autonomous decision-making and multi-step reasoning in AI systems.
Build and fine-tune LLMs for domain-specific applications, ensuring scalability and performance.
Design, develop, and deploy advanced ML models, GenAI & AgenticAI solutions to solve complex business problems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-driven solutions into enterprise workflows.
Stay ahead of emerging trends in AI, contributing to innovation and thought leadership within the organization.
Ensure compliance with ethical AI practices, data governance, and security standards.
Accountable for project management and technical implementation in designing scalable data pipelines, managing secure environments, and preparing data for the AI models.
Ensure the collection of consistent data and the preparation of data models including time-series, classification, optimization, prediction and recommendation algorithms.
Provide an operational workplace to the users; and build Agentic AI features to improve operational processes.
Maintain overall data models and applications. Monitor data load jobs; perform evolutions to data models, analysis, operational workplace upon request.
Participate in upskilling a federated CoE network of citizen developers around the company.

Relevant education degree or equivalent in Business Informatics, Data Science and AI or Computer Science.
Relevant work experience of at least 5+ years in Data science, GenAI & Agentic AI-focused roles with data engineering as plus.
Technical Expertise: Practical knowledge and experience in Agentic AI architectures, multi-agent systems, and autonomous workflows in Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (Azure AI Foundry, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, LangChain).
Hands-on experience with Generative AI models (e.g., GPT, diffusion models) and LLM fine-tuning.
Competencies: Fluency in English. Celonis PQL language is a plus.
Ability to translate business challenges into AI solutions.
Strong background in statistics, optimization, and algorithm design.
Proven experience in Data Science, Big Data.
Experience with cloud platforms (mainly Azure, but other is a plus AWS, GCP).
Familiarity with prompt engineering and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
Data Mining, Process Mining and SQL databases and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load).

Solvay Cares program: minimum of 16 weeks of parenting leave for all employees and package with healthcare, disability and life insurance coverage.
Prioritization of well-being: work-life balance promotion, flexible approach to work part-time or hybrid work arrangements (depending on the type of job), employee assistance program with access to physical and psychological support.
Professional development: prioritization of internal talents for career progression, access to a training platform, opportunities to join Employee Resource Groups (ERG) for experience sharing and mentorship and free language courses.