AVP-Data Science- BFSI

About the Company

One of India’s leading private life insurers. The company offers a wide range of protection, savings, retirement, and investment plans, serving over 40 lakh customers with a strong focus on financial security and long-term value.

About the Role

The role involves evangelizing AI/ML capabilities within the organization, working with senior leadership to enhance business processes, and driving AI & Analytics projects end to end.

Responsibilities

• Evangelizing & continuously working towards organizational understanding on capabilities of AI / ML.
• Work with senior leadership to understand business processes and proposing strategic use of AI/ML to enhance business outcomes.
• Being thought leader partner with our functional heads to understand & solve the business challenges in managing & growing their portfolio leveraging AI & Analytics solutions.
• Translate business problems, hypothesis into analytical problems and build solution leveraging AI/ML techniques to drive strategic initiatives end to end.
• Define & develop approach to scale AI/ML agenda through various AI/ML solutions.
• Enable business decision making and co-creating data driven business strategy through storytelling with data & presenting insights to top business leaders.
• Build and manage external relationships with various cross-industry/ academia forums for outside in perspective, seeking new and innovative approaches and to showcase our learnings.
• Drive AI & Analytics projects end to end including conceptualization, development, implementation and continuous monitoring.
• Build and nurture a strong team to become next generation business focused problem solvers, with strong culture of solution delivery, continuous learning and experimentation.

Qualifications

• MBA, or master’s degree in quantitative fields like mathematics, computer science, engineering, statistics, economics etc from top tier institutes.
• Minimum of 12-15 years of work experience (preferably post-graduation) in analytical roles.

Required Skills

• Strong collaborator with demonstrated abilities to influence and challenge conventional thinking.
• Strong abilities for analytical thinking & storytelling with data along with presenting insights to top business leaders.
• Exceptional ability to multi-task, prioritize and govern project execution.
• Demonstrated passion for AI / ML / Data Science / Gen AI through developed solutions.
• Hands-on experience and detailed knowledge of Analytics/ML/Deep tech/GenAI, technologies and applications.
• Hands on experience with various open source tools and technologies such as Python, R, Spark etc.
• Hands-on experience with deploying AI/ML solutions in cloud environment.
• Experience with ML / DL /Gen AI frameworks.
• Deep understanding of new age cloud-based frameworks & services around Gen AI, Vision, Text and Speech AI.
• At least 8 years of experience in a client facing data science consulting role.

Preferred Skills

• Ability to form partnerships with functional leaders & influence decision making through data.
• Improvement in operational efficiencies/ enable business goals achievement of functions supported.
• Execute organization wide initiatives.
• Number of AI/ML use case implementation.
• Improvements in algorithm outcome & ensuring model performance as expected at all times.
• Manage team engagement, growth & talent pipeline.