Job Title: ML Operations Lead

• Experience: 18–25 Years overall
• Relevant Experience: 8+ years in ML, MLOps, or Data Science Engineering, including team leadership
• Location: Hinjewadi Phase 1, Pune
• Work Mode: 5 Days Work from Office
• Working Hours: 9 AM – 6 PM IST(870)
• Notice Period: Immediate Joiners to Serving Notice Period Candidates(only upto 30days)
Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced ML Operations Lead to lead a team responsible for operating and maintaining traditional Machine Learning models in production. The role focuses on ensuring model accuracy, reliability, stability, auditability, and continuous performance through effective monitoring, drift detection, retraining, validation, deployment, and rollback practices.

The successful candidate will manage a team of two ML Operations Engineers in India and collaborate with international stakeholders, Data Engineering teams, and business teams to ensure timely and reliable model operations.

• Note: This is a classical MLOps role focused on traditional predictive ML models, not LLM/GenAI operations.




Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop the ML Operations team, establishing operational standards, priorities, and best practices.
• Manage the deployment, monitoring, retraining, validation, and maintenance of traditional ML models in production.
• Establish model validation gates, including backtesting and champion-challenger approaches, before promoting models to production.
• Define and manage rollback procedures to restore previous secure model versions when required.
• Monitor data drift, feature drift, concept drift, and model performance degradation across the model portfolio.
• Define retraining triggers, thresholds, and processes to maintain model accuracy and reliability.
• Maintain model registries, version history, training data lineage, baseline metrics, and last-known-good model records.
• Track model performance using relevant metrics such as AUC, precision, recall, and

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