Head - Data Science

Job description
Lead a team of data scientists from top tier schools and collaborate with Founders and business
heads to solve complex business problems
- Develop statistical, and machine learning-based models/pipelines/methods to improve business
processes and engagements
- Conduct sophisticated data mining analyses of large volumes of data and build data science
models, as required, as part of the credit and risk underwriting solutions; customer engagement and
retention; new business initiatives; business process improvements
- Translate data mining results into a clear business-focused deliverable for decisionmakers
- Working with Application Developers on integrating machine learning algorithms and data mining
models into operational systems so it could lead to automation, productivity increase, and time
savings
- Provide the technical direction required to resolve complex issues to ensure the on-time delivery of
solutions that meet the business team’s expectations. May need to develop new methods to apply
to situations
- Knowledge of how to leverage statistical models in algorithms is a must
- Experience in multivariate analysis; identifying how several parameters can affect
retention/behaviour of the customer and identifying actions at different points of the customer lifecycle

Extensive experience coding in Python and having mentored teams to learn the same
- Great understanding of the data science landscape and what tools to leverage for different
problems
- A great structured thinker that could bring structure to any data science problem quickly
- Ability to visualize data stories and adept in data visualization tools and present insights as cohesive
stories to senior leadership
- Excellent capability to organize large data sets collected from many sources (web APIs and internal
databases) to get actionable insights
- Initiate data science programs in the team and collaborate across other data science teams to build
a knowledge database