Description
The Emerging Tech Standard Delivery Team drives the adoption of advanced technologies and develops enterprise-ready solutions for D&A Operations. You will partner with Operations and Technology teams to design data-driven solutions that deliver clear business and customer value.
Strategic & Technical Skill
- Hands-on technical expertise across end-to-end data science initiatives, ensuring high-quality design, development, and delivery.
- Shape and refine the product vision for advanced data management and analytics frameworks spanning data acquisition, transformation, quality, and workflow automation.
- Define optimal user experiences for financial analytics pipelines, integrating diverse tools, datasets, and services into cohesive workflows.
- Own and drive large projects from a data science perspective, removing obstacles and taking ownership to find creative solutions.
- Serve as a technical authority upholding best practice, and architectural recommendations.
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with domain experts and senior business stakeholders to identify high-value problems and co-create AI/ML and platform strategies.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications, solution designs, and measurable success criteria.
- Communicate complex insights, findings, and solution outcomes to product, engineering, sales, proposition, support, and leadership teams.
- Influence cross-functional teams by providing clear, data-driven recommendations and technical direction.
Advanced AI/ML Delivery & Emerging Technologies
- Design, build, and optimize production-grade AI models,including deep learning, NLP, large language models, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Demonstrate strong expertise with LLMOps and advanced MLOps frameworks, including vector databases, orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), and scalable model-serving platforms to manage end-to-end LLM lifecycle.
- Assess third-party AI technologies, frameworks, and tools to inform build-versus-buy decisions and strengthen platform capabilities.
- Establish and uphold high coding standards, reproducibility practices, and quality controls for robust ML development.
Data Engineering & Processing Expertise
- Apply strong expertise in data extraction, including web scraping, crawling, entity recognition, and advanced pre/post-processing.
- Work with complex structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets,including financial documents, PDFs, and scanned content.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure scalable, reliable pipelines that support high-impact analytics workflows.
Cloud, MLOps & Deployment Excellence
- Align with modern MLOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployment practices.
- Lead scalable deployment of ML/AI solutions on AWS, Azure, or equivalent cloud environments.
- Partner with platform engineering to enhance monitoring, observability, and full model lifecycle management.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Stay abreast of emerging trends in AI, NLP, cloud computing, financial analytics, and ML engineering.
- Champion experimentation, innovation, and adoption of frontier techniques and tools.
- Identify opportunities to mature frameworks, modelling practices, and engineering processes across the organization.
Required Skills
- 8-12 years of experience in data science/AI with strong ownership of complex initiatives.
- Own end-to-end AI/ML lifecycle: problem definition, design, experimentation, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Drive technical strategy: select models, define metrics, and balance trade-offs (performance, scalability, cost).
- Lead development of advanced AI solutions: LLMs, GenAI, multimodal systems, and RAG workflows.
- Ensure production-grade delivery: partner with Engineering for secure, scalable, and reliable deployments (MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD).
- Define and sign off success criteria: evaluation frameworks, quality thresholds, and production readiness.
- Ensure Responsible AI & compliance: governance, explainability, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Act as technical authority: resolve risks, guide and mentor data scientists and ML engineers.
- Translate business needs into scalable AI solutions and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Demonstrate deep hands-on expertise in Python, ML/DL frameworks, NLP, LLMs, and RAG.
- Strong experience in MLOps/LLMOps, production deployment, and Git-based CI/CD workflows.
- Solid foundation in statistics, data engineering, and large-scale data processing.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and modern data ecosystems.
- Experience with AI agents, human-in-the-loop systems, and synthetic data techniques.
- Strong problem-solving, strategic thinking, and communication skills.