Job Description

URGENT HIRING for Data Science Head

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Head of Data Science

Location: Gurgaon / Hybrid

Experience: 7–12 Years

Role Summary

Own the vision, strategy, and execution of TapLend's Data Science function by building and scaling a high-performing team, driving AI and analytics initiatives, and delivering scalable machine learning solutions across underwriting, credit risk, fraud detection, collections, and lending operations.

Key Responsibilities

● Lead, mentor, and scale the Data Science and Analytics team.

● Define and execute the AI and Data Science roadmap aligned with business objectives.

● Design, build and deploy machine learning models for credit risk, fraud detection, affordability assessment and customer behaviour.

● Develop AI-powered solutions for underwriting, collections, customer support and operational automation.

● Own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including feature engineering, model development, deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.





● Partner closely with Product, Risk, Engineering and Business teams to deliver measurable business impact.

● Present strategic insights, model performance and recommendations to senior leadership.

● Drive innovation by evaluating and adopting emerging AI and Generative AI technologies.

● Establish best practices for experimentation, model governance and AI development.

● Hire, mentor and retain top Data Science talent.

Technical Skills

● Python, SQL, Pandas, NumPy

● Machine Learning: XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Scikit-learn

● Credit Risk Analytics, Scorecards, PD/LGD concepts, Bureau Analytics

● Fraud Detection, Portfolio Analytics, Affordability & Early Warning Models

● ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spark

● Power BI, Tableau or Grafana

Positive to Have Skills

● Experience with LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks.

● Knowledge of Credit Risk Modelling, Credit Bure

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