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Head Data Scientist - Machine Learning/NLP

Peak Hire Solutions
Pune
11 - 17 Years

Posted on: 21/09/2025

Job Description

Review Criteria :

- Strong Data Science / AI-ML Leader Profile

- Must have total 11+ YOE, and 8+ Years in hands-on Data Science, Algorithms, NLP, Machine Learning

- Must have at least 3+ YOE in working on building and optimizing search systems (preferably for high-volume eCommerce platforms)

- Must have strong hands-on expertise with statistical tools and programming languages (Python, R, SAS) and open-source ML libraries)

- Must have proven experience in data modelling/algorithms involving taxonomy, ontology, tags, thesaurus, and metadata models for search systems

- Must have experience with Big Data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark) for search/ML workloads

- Must have Hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks/libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Keras, Spark ML).

- Must have experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (CosmosDB, Cassandra, MongoDB).

- The CTC breakup offered will be 80% fixed, and 20% variable, as per Company policy

Preferred :

- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, HTML5, CSS3).

- Must Hands-on with dev tools: Eclipse, Git, Gradle, Jenkins, Jira, JFrog Artifactory and web servers (Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss).

- BE /B.Tech /M.Tech

Job Specific Criteria :

- CV Attachment is mandatory

- We have an alternate Saturdays working. Are you comfortable to WFH on 1st and 4th Saturday?

- Please Provide CTC breakup (Fixed & Variable)?

Role & Responsibilities :

- The Primary focus of this role is to develop and manage applications involved with Search Systems.


- Maintain and upgrade search indices for large document repositories, as well as optimizing indexing/queries and supporting analytics.


- He will be leading a Team of search engineers who build Tags, taxonomy, Thesaurus and ontology data models and standard to define and organize our customers search experience.

- Drive and coordinate cross-functional projects with broad range of Loan, Insurance and investment products owners, engineers, designers and other groups that may include architecting new data solutions

- Analyze website metrics and customer behaviour data to make intelligent decisions on optimizing our search model.


- Collaborate and consult directly with key stakeholders, technical teams and leadership on solutions for taxonomy and metadata that will positively impact the customers search experience

- Expand and refine data retrieval techniques to use our extensive product catalog and improve customer data quality


- This role is for machine learning and data-oriented product development (horizontal capability builds) but it will also require strong program management and execution skills.


- Technical Interactions with vendor or partners in technical capacity for business/capability deliverables.


- Develops proof of concept to prove or disprove validity of concept.


- Work with cross functional team to integrate these models into larger solutions.


- Works collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team environment;


- Establishes and maintains professional networks with subject matter experts.


- Responsible for artificial intelligence / machine learning technology and application analysis, understand latest industrial and academic developments in AI/ML.


- Design competitive AI/ML services and user experience for next generation products and create prototypes for demonstration.


- Strong empowerment and self-drive is a must.

Ideal Candidate :

- PhD/MTech/BE/ BTech/MSc in CS or Math, Operation research, Statistics, Econometrics or in any quantitative field

- 10+ years of industrial experience in Search, Information retrieval, NLP, Machine learning, predictive analytics solution development and deployment

- Strong Problem-solving ability

- Should have strong experience in anyone or more programming languages Python or JAVA. Experience in RESTful, Web Services,

- Experience in using Python, R, SAS or any other statistical software (plus other open-source libraries)

- skills with Shell/Perl (or similar scripting language), Scala and Java

- Experience with development tools like Eclipse, Git, Gradle, Jenkins, Jira, JFrog Artifactory etc.

- Experience with web application server like Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss etc.

- Strong understanding of OOP design patterns and industry best practices.

- Fair knowledge of scripting and working in Linux environment

- Good to have Experience of building Solutions with latest front-end technologies (JavaScript libraries like React or Angular, CSS3, HTML5).

- Hands-on experience of API Integration single-sign -on and token-based authentication. Experience integrating with SQL and NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB, Cassandra, MongoDB)

- Good understanding of DevOps pipeline like Azure Devops. Experience in Agile environment

- Experience in any of the following area could be plus: Lucene based search engines (Elasticsearch, Solr)

- Experience Container Orchestration technologies (Kubernetes), distributed systems, scalable data analytics technologies (Spark)

- Experience in mentoring junior team members, and guiding them on machine learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Speech analytics and data modeling applications

- Strong communication and data presentation skills

- Skills with Relational Databases, Data warehouses, Structured & Unstructured data forms.

- Publications /patents/presentation in recognized Machine Learning and Data Mining journals/conferences is preferred

- Solid knowledge in deep learning algorithms and AI system design and architecture.

- Strong hands-on nature (ability to self-code is a must).

- Strong capability to work on server class (cloud machines) for data science capability builds

- Strong IT & Business interactions capability

- Strong team player with exceptional program management.


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