Job Description
URGENT HIRING for Data Science Head
nEmail ID: [email protected]
nContact : (phone hidden)
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nHead of Data Science
nLocation: Gurgaon / Hybrid
nExperience: 3–5 Years
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nRole Summary
nOwn 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.
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nKey Responsibilities
n● Lead, mentor, and scale the Data Science and Analytics team.
n● Define and execute the AI and Data Science roadmap aligned with business objectives.
n● Design, build and deploy machine learning models for credit risk, fraud detection, affordability assessment and customer behaviour.
n● Develop AI-powered solutions for underwriting, collections, customer support and operational automation.
n● Own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including feature engineering, model development, deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.




n● Partner closely with Product, Risk, Engineering and Business teams to deliver measurable business impact.
n● Present strategic insights, model performance and recommendations to senior leadership.
n● Drive innovation by evaluating and adopting emerging AI and Generative AI technologies.
n● Establish best practices for experimentation, model governance and AI development.
n● Hire, mentor and retain top Data Science talent.
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nTechnical Skills
n● Python, SQL, Pandas, NumPy
n● Machine Learning: XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Scikit-learn
n● Credit Risk Analytics, Scorecards, PD/LGD concepts, Bureau Analytics
n● Fraud Detection, Portfolio Analytics, Affordability & Early Warning Models
n● ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Spark
n● Power BI, Tableau or Grafana
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nGood to Have Skills
n● Experience with LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar frameworks.
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