Data Scientist - BFS (3-5 yrs)

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Deliver end to end Data Science projects including understanding of business requirements, exploratory data analysis, data processing, aggregating data, feature engineering, building and validating predictive models, explaining model results & insights and deployment

- Use AI, ML, DL techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, tree-based algorithms, support vector machine, and neural networks, recommender system, attribution modelling to address business problems.

- Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources/features, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.

- Provide requirements to develop analytical capabilities, platforms, and pipelines.

- Present insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication

- Automate processes to ensure scalability of solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams

- Perform the data extraction, transformations, and loading from the source systems and the data lake to the analytics products using independently developed logic

- Challenge the status quo with entrepreneurial innovation in curating new data sources, elevating analytics beyond data reporting and dashboarding to deliver actionable insights

Skill requirements:

- Master's or Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science) from Tier 1 institutions

- 3-5 years of experience as a Data Scientist in the banking or financial services sectors

- 3+ years of coding skills in Python, SAS, SQL

- Deep understanding and hands-on experience with ML/DL Algorithms

- Experience of working with large data sets and developing scalable solutions

- Knowledge of Marketing Business, Banking and Financial services, E-Commerce is preferred

- Ability to work independently and deal with ambiguity

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Excellent presentation and strong written & verbal communication skills

- Knowledge of Banking products, Marketing strategies and Generative AI is a plus

- Highly motivated and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills