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 ships
📌 Expert Data Scientist (Chennai)
🏢 Ciklum India
📍 Chennai
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