Description
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 shi

📌 Expert Data Scientist (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India