Branch Manager/ Sales Manager LAP

POSITION / TITLE: Data Science Lead

Location: Offshore – Hyderabad/Bangalore/Pune

Who are we looking for?

Individuals with 8+ years of experience implementing and managing data science projects. Excellent working knowledge of traditional machine learning and LLM techniques. 

‎ The candidate must demonstrate the ability to navigate and advise on complex ML ecosystems from a model building and evaluation perspective. Experience in NLP and chatbots domains is preferred.

We acknowledge the job market is blurring the line between data roles: while software skills are necessary, the emphasis of this position is on data science skills, not on data-, ML- nor software-engineering.

Responsibilities:

· Lead data science and machine learning projects, contributing to model development, optimization and evaluation. 

· Perform data cleaning, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis.  

· Translate business requirements into technical solutions, document and communicate project progress, manage non-technical stakeholders.

· Collaborate with other DS and engineers to deliver projects.

Technical Skills – Must have:

· Experience in and understanding of the natural language processing (NLP) and large language model (LLM) landscape.

· Proficiency with Python for data analysis, supervised & unsupervised learning ML tasks.

· Ability to translate complex machine learning problem statements into specific deliverables and requirements.

· Should have worked with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

· Working knowledge of SQL and no-SQL databases.

· Ability to create data and ML pipelines for more efficient and repeatable data science projects using MLOps principles.

· Keep abreast with new tools, algorithms and techniques in machine learning and works to implement them in the organization.

· Strong understanding of evaluation and monitoring metrics for machine learning projects.

Technical Skills – Good to have:

· Track record of getting ML models into production

· Experience building chatbots.

· Experience with closed and open source LLMs.

· Experience with frameworks and technologies like scikit-learn, BERT, langchain, autogen…

· Certifications or courses in data science.

Education:

· Master’s/Bachelors/PhD Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field. 

Process Skills:

· Understanding of  Agile and Scrum  methodologies.  

· Ability to follow SDLC processes and contribute to technical documentation.  

Behavioral Skills :

· Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal management supervision.

· Well-developed design, analytical & problem-solving skills

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  

· Excellent team player, able to work with virtual teams in several time zones.

• Bring in industry best practices around creating and maintaining robust data pipelines for complex data projects with/without AI component
  • programmatically ingesting data from several static and real-time sources (incl. web scraping)
  • rendering results through dynamic interfaces incl. web / mobile / dashboard with the ability to log usage and granular user feedbacks
  • performance tuning and optimal implementation of complex Python scripts (using SPARK), SQL (using stored procedures, HIVE), and NoSQL queries in a production environment

• Industrialize ML / DL solutions and deploy and manage production services; proactively handle data issues arising on live apps
• Perform ETL on large and complex datasets for AI applications - work closely with data scientists on performance optimization of large-scale ML/DL model training
• Build data tools to facilitate fast data cleaning and statistical analysis
• Ensure data architecture is secure and compliant
• Resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas on data quality, accuracy, and availability
• Work closely with APAC CDO and coordinate with a fully decentralized team across different locations in APAC and global HQ (Paris).

•  Expert in structured and unstructured data in traditional and Big data environments – Oracle / SQLserver, MongoDB, Hive / Pig, BigQuery, and Spark
• Have excellent knowledge of Python programming both in traditional and distributed models (PySpark)
• Expert in shell scripting and writing schedulers
• Hands-on experience with Cloud - deploying complex data solutions in hybrid cloud / on-premise environment both for data extraction/storage and computation
• Hands-on experience in deploying production apps using large volumes of data with state-of-the-art technologies like Dockers, Kubernetes, and Kafka
• Strong knowledge of data security best practices
• 5+ years experience in a data engineering role
• Science / Engineering graduate from a Tier-1 university in the country
• And most importantly, you must be a passionate coder who really cares about building apps that can help people do things better, smarter, and faster even when they sleep

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala,
• MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS), and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting
• services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside the Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

• 6 + years of Hands-on development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems

Responsibilities:

 Work with development and product team to ideate software solutions

 Design client-side and server-side architecture

 Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design

 Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

 Write effective APIs, Ability to quickly pick up new areas in the product and write optimal

code taking into consideration the security and performance aspects of the product.

 Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

 Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

 Create security and data protection settings

 Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design

 Write technical documentation

Skills:

 Proven experience of around 4-7yrs as a Full Stack Developer.

 Should be a full stack developer who can code on cutting-edge technology stacks including

Laravel, Nodejs, Express js, Python, React, Angular, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Elastic Search,

Docker, AWS etc. for our clients.

 Experience developing desktop and mobile applications

 Familiarity with common stacks

 Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML,

jQuery)

 Strong Knowledge of multiple back-end languages and on frameworks or platforms (Phython

/ Express JS / Django etc), API / Serverless services, DB Schema Definition.

 Good to have stakeholder management, team leading, team mentoring, code management

under critical problem

 Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX

design

 Excellent communication and teamwork skills

 Great attention to detail and analytical skills.

 Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field

Role and Responsibilities

•  Working with front-end developers and providing server-side algorithms of user-facing web application elements.
• Coding and creating functional web applications, optimizing code for increasing response time and efficiency.
• Analyzing the goals and requirements, efficiently handling bugs and errors, and finding effective solutions for the same.
•  Interacting with the database for storing data and ensuring that every user has access to what they search.
•  Accomplishing the projects and goals within deadline.
• Managing APIs that are executed across the devices.
•  Involving in defining the architecture of the system.

Required skills

• In-depth knowledge of PHP and related frameworks like Laravel, Codeigniter, Yii. Competent in Ruby, Python, nodeJs, and Java will be an added advantage.
• Good Communication, Analytical, Logical, and Leadership skills.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies, such as Angular, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be preferred.
• Capable of managing a hosting environment along with database administration such as MySQL, Oracle.
• Excellent knowledge of APIs (REST, SOAP) and Web services.
• Ability to scale applications to handle the load changes.
• Knowledge of accessibility and security compliance.
• Good to have experience in version control, such as GIT.

The is a senior role that involves leading the engineering team and get to work amongst the sharpest of minds in the Indian Internet fraternity in Product and Technology. This is a challenging role that expects the incumbent to work with constant agility with various teams and deliver the best products in the space using effective technology platforms. The role is based out of HQ in Gurgaon.

Someone from Fintech/Product based Company would be preffered

Job Purpose: Plan, drive, and review delivery of projects in line with the agreed product pipeline with the objective of improving the technology delivery strength thereby contributing in achieving the organizational top and bottom line. Lead initiatives on transformations and re-engineering of the product platform.

• Contribute as part of the technology team to determine strategic directions
• Forge and install goals and standards for engineering performance
• Measure and ensure engineering, product delivery goals are met with, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance
• Constantly motivate, mentor, and guide the engineering team members
• Harness the capabilities of individuals and teams to ensure appropriate opportunities and growth for them Work closely and coherently with the product development team to ensure alignment and achievement of product and engineering goals
• Devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications - Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and training the members
• Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process

-Contribute to crafting and own the execution of strategic product development plans

• Manage multiple technology delivery teams
• Responsible for coaching, developing, motivating & retaining team members
• Responsible for overall employee engagement of the team

• Engineering graduate with a minimum of 8 Years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience in Core J2EE or Core Java (collection, multithreading, OOPS concepts
• Experienced in successful implementation/adoption of agile and extreme programming methodologies
• Brilliant at communication, estimation and delivery, change management, and leadership capabilities
• Should have managed a large technology team directly or through the hierarchy
• Hands-on expertise would be an added advantage