Senior Data Scientist

Experience required: 5 - 8 yrs

Roles & Responsibilities
Translate analytical insights into clear, actionable recommendations for product and business stakeholders. Lead end‐to‐end data science and ML initiatives, from problem framing and feature engineering to deployment and performance evaluation. Develop and optimize machine learning models (classification, regression, boosting, ranking, forecasting) that drive measurable business impact. Partner with ML Engineering, Platform, and MLOps teams to ensure solutions are production‐ready, observable, and scalable. Contribute to AI and Gen AI use cases, including intelligent decision systems, AI‐assisted workflows and Agentic AI systems. Mentor junior data scientists and promote high standards of modeling rigor and code quality. Skills

Must Have
Solid machine learning fundamentals, statistics and model evaluation. Advanced Python and SQL for data science and modeling. Experience with large‐scale data and distributed processing (Databricks / Spark‐like environments).



Experience working with production ML systems. Working understanding of Gen AI fundamentals, including Transformers, LLMs, embeddings, and prompting concepts. Strong problem‐solving and stakeholder communication skills. Good to Have
Model monitoring, drift detection, and retraining workflows. Optimization, interpretability (SHAP, feature importance). Exposure to Gen AI/LLM‐based modeling (use‐case dependent). Exposure to Agentic AI concepts (tool‐using agents, workflow orchestration). Familiarity with RAG‐based systems and retrieval strategies. Tech Stack / Tools

Must Have
Python, SQL ML algorithms (Bagging, Boosting, Neural Nets) Databricks & Spark Git / version control ML experimentation and evaluation tools Data visualization and reporting tools Cloud computing - AWS and/or Azure Good to Have
Cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP) ML experimentation and monitoring tools Gen AI tooling (LLM frameworks, embeddings, vector stores)

📌 Senior Data Scientist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Bread Financial
📍 Bengaluru