Ciklum is looking for an Expert Data Scientist to join our team full time in
India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational
organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business
challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers,
consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines
industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As an Expert Data Scientist, become a part of a cross-functional development
team engineering experiences of tomorrow. The Expert/Principal Data Scientist is
a senior technical leader responsible for setting the standard for
evaluation-driven development across the organization's AI/ML and analytics
portfolio. This person defines modeling strategy, evaluation frameworks, and
delivery governance across multiple 45-day release cycles, and is accountable
for demonstrating measurable business impact at a portfolio level while
mentoring senior and mid-level data scientists.

Responsibilities:





* Evaluation-Driven Development — Strategy & Standards
* Define and champion the organization's evaluation-driven development
framework: standards for selecting modeling approaches (statistical, ML,
optimization, simulation, GenAI), evaluation metric design, and validation
methodology
* Establish enterprise guidelines for aligning evaluation metrics to business
and process outcomes, ensuring consistency across teams and products
* Set standards for the use of synthetic data, historical data, and
real-world/controlled validation across the model lifecycle, including
approval gates before production rollout
* Own the definition of "measurable improvement" for the portfolio — ensuring
every release is backed by a rigorous before/after comparison against
business KPIs
* Delivery Leadership
* Oversee and be accountable for multiple concurrent workstreams delivered
through 45-day versioned agile cycles, ensuring the portfolio consistently
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📌 Expert Data Scientist (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India