AI/ML Lead - Innovation Hub

SCIENTE
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We are seeking a Data & AI Lead for a small Innovation Hub to deliver proofs of concept (PoCs) and reusable assets, for various usecases withn Financial Services, with a focus on GRC domains (AML, Financial Crime, Risk & Compliance) and Customer Experience4

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of Data & AI PoCs and innovation prototypes
  • Build reusable technical assets, accelerators, and reference architectures
  • Design governed semantic and logical data layers
  • Implement data virtualization and federated data access patterns
  • Apply DataOps and MLOps practices for repeatable PoC delivery
  • Design cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP (based on client needs)
  • Shape GenAI / LLM PoCs (RAG, knowledge retrieval, case summarization, data discovery)
  • Develop domain-aligned data models for AML, Risk, and Compliance
  • Work with businesses to identify high-impact use cases, Translate business problems into data-driven or AI solutions and run ideation workshops and innovation programs
  • Mentor and lead a small engineering team (2–5 members)
  • Present PoC outcomes to business, IT, and compliance stakeholders

Required Skills & Experience

  • At least 5 years of relevant work experience in (Gen) AI/ML engineering, Python, SQL and API integrations.Strong experience in:
  • Strong foundation in data engineering - Data architecture & data modeling, Data integration & distributed data systems, Data virtualization & semantic layer design
  • Experience in Financial Services domain - preferably in GRC domains i.e. AML, Financial Crime, Risk, Compliance, Customer Experience.
  • 2 years experience in AI Agents / systems, architectures, frameworks etc.
  • Strong expertise in Graph Database is preferred.
  • Practical experience in DataOps and/or MLOps practices
  • Experience in leading POCs, rapid prototyping, running experimentation
  • Experience building modular, API-driven, reusable components
  • Hands-on multi-cloud solution design experience (AWS / Azure / GCP)
  • Proven experience leading small technical teams

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with data virtualization platforms - Denodo
  • Experience with data science & AutoML platforms - Dataiku
  • Exposure to AI-enabled data platforms and data fabric approaches
  • Relevant Anthropic / cloud / data / AI certifications

Job Location: Koramangala, Bangalore.

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