Navikenz | Join our team as a Lead Data Scientist

Job Description
Role
: Lead Data Scientist
Work Experience:
8-12 Years
About Navikenz:
Navikenz’s mission is to ‘Enable human enterprise with AI to create a new digital future’ and we are
are guided by our core value, ‘Technology second, Outcome first’. We ensure we fully understand
our customer’s business needs in-depth through our Business Solution Consulting services and we
build the right technology solutions through our Data Management, AI and Digital Engineering
services to realize the business needs.
Navikenz is founded and managed by a leadership team that has earlier established and successfully
scaled many globally admired IT Services organizations like Mindtree, Infosys, and others. The
management experience of the top 20 people at the company is an average of about 20 years.
Our values define our culture. At Navikenz, are creating a differentiated workplace where -
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there is no hierarchy, employees come together as pods to solve problems.
there are virtual first, hybrid ways of working, with an ability to define flexible work
schedules.
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workplace is open, transparent and encourages healthy debate, and diversity of thoughts.
a vacation policy which encourages work-life balance.
family and well-being are given the most importance.
there is a focus on learning.
About the role
Brief Summary of the Role:
Candidate should have experience in ML problem formulation, building, testing, deploying and
operationalizing models in different Cloud Environments.
Objective of this role:
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Front End with clients to understand Business Process / Requirements/KPIs and Communicate
it with internal team.
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Direct a team of data scientists, data engineers and ML Engineers to achieving desired results.
Receptive to taking up new initiatives learning and delivering output Combine the best of
Software Engineering and Model Development Practice.
Responsibilities:
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Work directly with clients and cross functional teams such as SME, Data Scientists, Engineering
to define, develop and implement right ML Solution.
Defining POCs, Building Rapid prototypes, communicating the results with stakeholders and
taking POCs to production and enabling teams to monitor ML models.
Should be able to learn new Technology & Domain and Identify new Data sources that can
solve a particular problem.
Should be able to experiment with new Technologies in ML / DL space and help define
architecture
Understand & Perform Infra sizing for Training and Serving Production Environments.
Required/Must have skills:
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Masters / Bachelors in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, AI , Data Science or related
field

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Must have Experience of working in End-End model development ML/DL with different
Algorithms using Scikit, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Python , R in AWS / GCP / Azure, Generative AI.
Must have experience of MLOps and additionally experience of optimizing, deploying ML/DL
models in different environments
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Must have experience of leading a team of Data scientists / ML Engineers
Must have worked in at least two Domains such as FSI, Healthcare and Life Sciences , Retail ,
Travel , Supply Chain
Preferred/Good to have skills/Qualifications:
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PhD in Statistics, Mathematics
Candidates with working knowledge in Pharmacovigilance/FSI would be preferred
Work Location:
The candidate will have the flexibility to work remotely with occasional travel to an office location or
to a client location, when required. Navikenz employees are tagged to a base location (major metro
cities) and are required to be available at the location as required for internal company meetings or
otherwise, at their own expense.