Principal Data Scientist (Python, AI/ML)

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinkingAt FIS you ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team

The Capital Markets AI/ML CoE team is a horizontal CoE for Capital Markets that is helping us drive revenue and bring significant savings to our businesses by identifying, exploring, and implementing AI/ML solutions.

The Capital Markets is one of the two verticals in FIS. It has various products and solutions in funds management, cleared derivatives, commercial lending, corporate treasury, insurance risk electronic trading, RegTech, wealth and retirement etc.

The team consists of highly motivated solution architects, data scientists and ML engineers.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be working designing and developing cutting-edge AI/ML solutions across the organization.

What you bring:

Knowledge / Experience

• A deep understanding of GenAI and its applications in the industry.
• Working experience in data analysis and machine learning / deep learning.
• Ability to formulate business problems as machine learning problems.
• Model Evaluation
• Model interpretability / explainability.
• Working experience of areas like Computer vision, Natural Language Processing, anomaly detection.
• Excellent communication skills.
  • Communicates ideas both verbally and in written form in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
  • Bridge the gap between business and tech teams.
• Ability to analyze and solve problems in most optimal ways.
• Knowledge of the financial services marketplace is an added advantage.

Skills

• Proficiency in application development in Python.
  • Good-to-have: Experience in additional programming languages (Good to have Java or C# or both).
• Hands on with frameworks and libraries like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, pandas etc.
• Working experience of like Flask or FastAPI
• Working experience of SQLAlchemy, Pydantic data modelling
• Good to have - Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and AI Studios.
• Hands-on experience in solving practical problems using GenAI / LLMs
• Team skills, including the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships both internally as well as externally.
• Experience of working with at least one relational database.
• Should have experience in application development and using IDEs, etc.
• Innovative thinking

Qualifications

Bachelor s degree in engineering or related field or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.

Degree / Certification in Data science, Statistics, or related fields.

Competencies

• Fluent in English
• Excellent communicator - ability to discuss technical and commercial solutions to internal and external parties and adapt depending on the technical or business focus of the discussion.
• Attention to detail - track record of authoring high quality documentation.
• Organized approach - manage and adapt priorities according to client and internal requirements.
• Self-starter but team mindset - work autonomously and as part of a global team

What we offer you

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities - FIS is your final career step!
• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources, and opportunities

With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS is the worlds largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe. FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard Poor s 500 Index.

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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