BIU:Data Science Lead-Data Science

BIU: JD
for Data Science

Grade:

Business:

BIU

Department:

BIU

Sub - Department:

BIU

Location:

Mumbai/Bangalore

About BIU

Axis Bank s (Business Intelligence Unit): This is a
high profile team with a mandate to drive data based decisions within the bank Reporting in to Head Banking Operations and Transformation, this department works with all businesses of the bank including retail, small business and corporate to drive analytics In terms of functions, the department has teams focused on all aspects of analytics for the bank including risk analytics, financial analytics, crime analytics, business and marketing analytics, building predictive scores, data engineering, business reporting and data governance roles

About the Role

Analytics is one of top focus areas for the bank and
this position represents opportunity to be part of high growth teams driving innovation This role involves understanding of model building and reviewing

Key
Responsibilities

The candidate will be
responsible for the following in his/her job role:

Co-own the business
goals & lead problem solving, work in an agile manner with business partners, Risk-review committee members , data engineering and IT

Work with a team of
data scientists and help deliver on projects in a time bound fashion

Innovate by adapting
new modeling techniques and procedures

Work in a
self-directed environment, own tasks and drive them to completion

Role
Proficiencies:

The candidate is
required to have:

Fluency in Python,
SQL/SAS hands on relevant experience

Experience in
building models, with some years in building credit-Risk models

Prior experience in
BFSI domain a plus

Should have good
knowledge of advanced ML techniques (Logistic, XGboost, RF, ANNs, Ensembles) and understand the end to end deployment aspects

Knowledge of
dockers/containers, micro services is a plus

Solid spoken and
written communication skills

Should have strong analytical thinking and be able to convince
stakeholders on using data-based evidence Experience in modelling for BFSI domain preferred

Having
good exposure of various deployment platforms like FICO BLAZE, BDL, ORACLE etc

Strong
track record in solving analytical problems using quantitative and statistical approaches

Ability
to manipulate and analyse complex, high- volume, high- dimension data from varying sources

Technical
competence in tools such as Python and/or SAS a plus