Director, Data Scientist

Mastercard

10 - 12 years

32 - 37 Lacs

pune

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Full Time

Job Description

As Director, Data Science, you will drive foundational AI strategy and execution for business operations
You will define roadmap, architect solutions, and lead cross-functional delivery to unlock and communicate measurable efficiency and innovation
You will work hands-on with data scientists, ML and platform engineers, and senior business leaders to deliver high-impact use cases

Your Role and Responsibilities:

Develop AI-driven strategies to support business value
Identify, qualify, and prioritize high-impact AI opportunities across business domains
Translate north star vision into executable plans, building alignment among relevant executives and business stakeholders on timing and delivery
Enable quick and iterative delivery of AI solutions with consistent value creation
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Finance BAs, Privacy, AI Governance, Info Security, BizOps, etc) to design development patterns fit for productionizing and scale
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of AI and automation advancements
Oversee the needs for documenting knowledge, creating templates, and authoring playbooks to help the team scale
Oversee the end-to-end implementation of data science and AI solutionsfrom concept and prototype through deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
Develop and maintain a value realization framework that quantifies the business impact of data science initiatives (e.g, cost optimization, working capital improvements, revenue enhancement, or process automation)
Continuously evaluate and refine models and solutions to maximize financial and operational outcomes
Lead and manage the ML Ops team, ensuring scalable deployment, automation, and monitoring of machine learning models across environments

All about you

10 to 12+ years hands-on leadership of technology strategies, leveraging data and AI to solve complex business problems and drive measurable impact in large, regulated environments
Proven track record influencing and aligning executives and cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes at scale
Strong communicator executive presence, crisp storytelling, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business strategy
Highly competent problem solving and solutioning skills; able to demonstrate business need as well as technical solution discovery and design
Proven experience in productionizing AI capabilities based on large datasets, and modern AI patterns (LLMs, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, prompt/response optimization, agents & tools)
Good to Have Experience in the financial institutions or payments industry
Knowledge of cloud computing (Databricks, AWS)
Familiarity with agile methodologies.

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