Senior Lead Data Scientist, Analytics Platform and Solution Development - KONE Oyj - Etätyö - Globaali

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others. KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market. KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies. KONE R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies, across hardware and software engineering. In fact, roughly half of our R&D roles are in software. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment. Technology and innovation careers - KONE Corporation We are now looking for a Senior Lead Data Scientist, Analytics Platform and Solution Development Join our Digital Services, SW organization in Espoo or Hyvinkää, Finland, where we build and operate platforms and solutions across IoT Platform, Digital Services, and Analytics Platform. We work in a hybrid model so there’s possibility to work remotely couple of days a week. We are building a next-generation analytics platform to enable scalable, data-driven decision-making and intelligent services across KONE’s digital ecosystem. This platform will combine data, AI/ML, and insights into a unified and reusable foundation supporting multiple business and engineering use cases. This platform will support multiple use cases, including predictive maintenance, energy optimization, and safety improvements. As a Senior Lead Data Scientist you will play a key role in shaping and developing this platform across: Foundation layer (data & pipelines), Intelligence layer (AI/ML models), Consumption layer (dashboards & insights). What you’ll do: Define and build the intelligence layer using AI/ML for predictive, prescriptive, and optimization solutions. Participate the design and development of a scalable analytics platform and analytics solutions supporting multiple digital services and use cases. Design the consumption layer enabling dashboards, reporting, and actionable insights. Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate data pipelines and platform capabilities (e.g., Databricks, AWS). Drive architecture decisions, standardization, and best practices across analytics and AI solutions. Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and production-ready. Work closely with software, data, IoT, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. Guide development of data models, ML lifecycle, and analytics capabilities. What we’re looking for: Strong experience in data science and applied machine learning. Proven experience in building end-to-end analytics or data platforms. Hands-on experience with Databricks or similar modern data platforms. Excellent programming skills in Python (pandas, PySpark). Experience with AWS data and analytics services (e.g., S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda). Ability to design AI/ML solutions for real-world use cases. Experience building or supporting dashboards and insight-driven applications. Understanding of data pipelines, ETL, and data architecture concepts. Familiarity with CI/CD and production deployment practices. Strong collaboration and communication skills. Nice to have: Experience with streaming and real-time data processing (Kafka, Spark, Flink). Exposure to ML lifecycle tools (e.g. MLflow). Knowledge of data governance and cataloging (e.g. Unity Catalog). Experience with visualization tools (e.g. QuickSight or similar). Experience working with IoT or large-scale operational data. For additional information, please contact Chief Data Scientist contact Olli Mali tel. +358 50 344 1915 on Friday, May 22nd, 2026 between 14-15 o’clock EET or Friday May 29th  between 14-15 o’clock EET. We offer: You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop our products, services, and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users daily. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation. Want to join the #PeopleFlow? If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers site https://careers.kone.com/en/find-jobs latest by June 2nd, 2026. #LI-KTI#LI-Hybrid At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/