Digital Transformation Engineer in Chennai

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television, while also maintaining a strong global presence in India with offices in Bangalore and Chennai that support technology, product, and business operations initiatives. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. About TEGNA TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. Data Scientist TEGNA is seeking a highly skilled, innovative, and analytical Data Scientist to lead end-to-end development of advanced models and insights across our multi-platform media ecosystem spanning TV, digital, streaming, social, and mobile. This role is central to transforming large-scale viewership, content, and sales datasets into predictive models, optimization frameworks, and actionable insights that support content strategy, personalization, audience growth, and revenue performance. The ideal candidate is passionate about experimentation, machine learning, and building scalable data and ML solutions. You will collaborate with engineering,product, editorial, sales, and analytics teams to translate complex, ambiguous business challenges into measurable, data-driven outcomes. What You’ll Do Lead the full data science lifecycle: problem framing, hypothesis development, feature engineering, model development, validation, and deployment planning. Develop and operationalize machine learning models across forecasting, personalization, c