Business Development Executive

Job Title: Business Analyst – Fintech Domain (Mumbai Only)

Location: Mumbai, India

Experience: 5 to 10 Years

Domain: Fintech (Commodity domain exposure will be provided)

Education: Graduate/Postgraduate from a Premium Institute (Tier 1 preferred)

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with 5–10 years of proven experience in the Fintech domain. This role is ideal for candidates who have a strong foundation in business analysis and are keen to be groomed into the Commodity domain. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to drive bespoke application development and deliver high-quality, domain-aligned solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document detailed business and functional requirements.
• Work on bespoke application development – from requirement elicitation to testing and go-live support.
• Translate business needs into functional specifications and user stories.
• Participate in solution design, data mapping, and system integration discussions.
• Conduct UAT planning, execution, and post-production validation.
• Continuously identify process improvement opportunities and recommend solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree from a Premium Institute (Tier 1 background preferred).
• 5–10 years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst in Fintech/Banking/Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of BA processes – requirement

Location Constraint:

• Only candidates currently based in Mumbai will be considered.
• Profiles from Pune or other locations will not be entertained.

Roles & Responsibilities:  

We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the Data Science Client Services team to continue our success of identifying high quality target audiences that generate profitable marketing return for our clients. We are looking for experienced data science, machine learning and MLOps practitioners to design, build and deploy impactful predictive marketing solutions that serve a wide range of verticals and clients. The right candidate will enjoy contributing to and learning from a highly talented team and working on a variety of projects.  

We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist who will be responsible for  

• Ownership of design, implementation, and deployment of machine learning algorithms in a modern Python-based cloud architecture  
• Design or enhance ML workflows for data ingestion, model design, model inference and scoring 3. Oversight on team project execution and delivery  
• Establish peer review guidelines for high quality coding to help develop junior team members’ skill set growth, cross-training, and team efficiencies  
• Visualize and publish model performance results and insights to internal and external audiences  

Qualifications:  

• Masters in a relevant quantitative, applied field (Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering)  
• Minimum of 9+ years of work experience in the end-to-end lifecycle of ML model development and deployment into production within a cloud infrastructure (Databricks is highly preferred)
• Exhibit deep knowledge of core mathematical principles relating to data science and machine learning (ML Theory + Best Practices, Feature Engineering and Selection, Supervised and Unsupervised ML, A/B Testing, etc.)  
• Proficiency in Python and SQL required; PySpark/Spark experience a plus  
• Ability to conduct a productive peer review and proper code structure in Github
• Proven experience developing, testing, and deploying various ML algorithms (neural networks, XGBoost, Bayes, and the like)  
• Working knowledge of modern CI/CD methods  

This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. It is not intended to be a complete list of assigned duties but to describe a position level. 

• Discussing project aims with the client and development team.
• Designing and building web applications using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debug builds.
• Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Testing functionality for users and the backend.
• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.
• Scaling projects based on client feedback.
• Recording and reporting on work done in Laravel.
• Maintaining web-based applications.
• Presenting work in meetings with clients and management.

We are looking for a creative storyteller aka Content writer who is digital savvy and has a good hold on brand content strategy and initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for building brand content across all internal as well as external platforms. Most importantly, this individual should have a high sense of ownership, who can conceptualize and strategize our visual and written content endeavours.

Role & Responsibilities:

Work closely with business and product managers to understand content strategy objectives and deliverables.

Strong project manager with the ability to engage productively and successfully with key stakeholders from creative, media, marketing, product, and research teams.

Look after short form of content such as push notifications, SMS, emails & social media; as well as SEO driven long form of organic and paid content.

Understand impact of content on overall customer engagement and prioritize tasks accordingly.

Establish guidelines and best practices across teams on content generation.

Qualifications & Skills:

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects - prioritization, planning and task delegation.

Have experience in both long form and short form of content.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good organisational and time-management/team building skills

Bachelors/ Masters in Design, Marketing, Communications, Journalism or relevant field.

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning