Lead Data Scientist

Our Client: Founded in 2020, our client is an industry-leading, first-of-its-kind in India, digital healthcare data platform and exchange, infused with AI/ML capabilities, delivering solutions to stakeholders in all segments of the healthcare sector.

Job Title: Lead Data Scientist

Education: B.Tech (Degree in Data Science Plus)

Experience: 8 - 10 Years

Location: Bangalore

About the Role: We are developing the next-generation automated health insurance claims processing platform, leveraging AI/ML, deep learning, NLP, OCR, and LLM-powered intelligence. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will drive the design, development, deployment, and optimisation of AI models that power large-scale claims decisioning across multiple regions. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will work independently, set technical direction, mentor a diverse team, and ensure reliable production performance of mission-critical models.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy, and monitor ML models for health-claims automation.
• Own full ML pipelines: data ingestion, modelling, deployment, monitoring, retraining.
• Work with NLP, OCR, Transformers, LLMs, and Generative AI.
• Optimise models for accuracy, latency, and scalability.
• Implement MLOps, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams; mentor junior members.

Requirements:

• An engineering degree is mandatory.
• 8+ years of experience in data science or machine learning, with 35 years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience building and deploying ML models in production at scale.
• Strong foundation in statistics, machine learning fundamentals, optimisation, and deep learning.
• Expertise in NLP, transformers, LLM fine-tuning, embeddings, computer vision, OCR, time-series modelling, and predictive modelling.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, ML frameworks, and cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated success leading teams and delivering enterprise-scale AI systems.
• Experience in health-insurance or health-claims processing ecosystems.
• Understanding of regulatory and compliance constraints in healthcare data.
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards such as HL7, FHIR, ICD, CPT, and SNOMED.
• Experience with MLOps tools including MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

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