Lead Data Scientist - AI/ML Engineering - BFSI

Job Description:

- Lead AI Product Pods across Credit Risk, Fraud, and Collections functions.

- Build and deploy production-scale Machine Learning systems for lending lifecycle decisioning.

- Own complete ML lifecycle including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

- Design scalable distributed ML infrastructure, feature stores, model registries, and MLOps pipelines.

- Develop AI solutions for underwriting, portfolio risk monitoring, fraud detection, anomaly detection, and recovery optimization.

- Drive model governance, monitoring, explainability, and compliance within BFSI regulatory standards.

- Collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, Data, and Business teams to deliver AI-driven business outcomes.

- Define AI platform architecture, operational excellence, SLAs, and incident management practices.

- Build, mentor, and scale high-performing AI Engineering and Data Science teams.