Role: Group Leader – Data Science, AI/ML Engineering
Location: Bangalore (work from office)
Experience: 12 – 16 Years

Our client is looking for a strong technology leader to lead Data Science, AI Engineering, ML Engineering and MLOps. This is a strategic leadership role for someone who can combine hands-on AI/ML expertise with people leadership, engineering excellence and global delivery ownership.

What You'll Lead
- Own end-to-end delivery of Data Science, AI/ML and GenAI solutions from ideation through production
- Lead Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDE) for GenAI, partnering directly with business teams to convert business problems into production-ready AI solutions
- Build, mentor and grow a high-performing team of Data Scientists, AI/ML Engineers and MLOps professionals
- Establish scalable delivery frameworks, engineering standards, CI/CD, testing, evaluation and release processes
- Own delivery commitments across scope, timelines, quality and cost
- Ensure reliability and SLA performance of enterprise AI/ML platforms and pipelines
- Manage MLOps, monitoring,



incident response and platform cost management
- Lead and manage offshore consulting partners, ensuring quality and accountability
- Partner closely with global Data Science, AI Engineering and ML Engineering leadership across North America

What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience delivering Data Science, GenAI and ML solutions into production
- Solid experience with Azure ML, Azure OpenAI Service, AKS and Azure DevOps
- Strong MLOps expertise covering containerization, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and ML/LLM reliability
- Experience developing agentic/LLM applications, with LangGraph or comparable frameworks
- Strong production-quality Python skills
- Proven experience hiring, mentoring and developing Data Scientists and AI/ML Engineers
- Experience establishing delivery frameworks, SLAs and operating processes
- Strong vendor/consulting partner management experience
- Excellent stakeholder comm

📌 Group Leader Data Science, AI/ML Engineering (Bengaluru)
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