Roles and Responsibilities:

- Deliver end to end Data Science projects including understanding of business requirements, exploratory data analysis, data processing, aggregating data, feature engineering, building and validating predictive models, explaining model results & insights and deployment
- Use AI, ML, DL techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, tree-based algorithms, support vector machine, and neural networks, recommender system, attribution modelling to address business problems.
- Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources/features, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.
- Provide requirements to develop analytical capabilities, platforms, and pipelines.
- Present insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication
- Automate processes to ensure scalability of solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Perform the data extraction, transformations, and loading from the source systems and the data lake to the analytics products using independently developed logic




- Challenge the status quo with entrepreneurial innovation in curating recent data sources, elevating analytics beyond data reporting and dashboarding to deliver actionable insights

Skill requirements:

- Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science)
- At least 3-7 years of experience as a Data Scientist preferably in the banking or financial services sectors
- 3+ years of coding skills in Python, SAS, SQL
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience with ML/DL Algorithms
- Experience of working with large data sets and developing scalable solutions
- Knowledge of Marketing, Risk, Business, Banking and Financial services, E-Commerce is preferred
- Ability to work independently and deal with ambiguity
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent presentation and strong written & verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of Banking products, Marketing strategies and Generative AI is a plus
- Highly motivated and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills

📌 Data Scientist (Mumbai)
🏢 Kotak Mahindra Bank
📍 Mumbai