Senior Data Scientist Lead - R01566194
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Job description
Technical Leadership
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Lead the design, development, and deployment of end-to-end AI/ML solutions, with primary focus on Computer Vision and OCR use cases.
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Architect scalable and production-ready AI systems, ensuring performance, accuracy, security, and maintainability.
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Drive adoption of state-of-the-art AI techniques including deep learning, transformers, multimodal models, and document intelligence.
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Review and guide model selection, feature engineering, training strategies, and evaluation metrics.
Computer Vision & OCR Expertise
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Lead CV initiatives such as image classification, object detection, segmentation, face/text recognition, and video analytics.
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Design and optimize OCR pipelines for structured and unstructured documents (invoices, forms, IDs, contracts, handwritten text).
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Implement and enhance document understanding workflows including layout analysis, key-value extraction, and semantic interpretation.
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Improve model accuracy through data augmentation, active learning, and continuous feedback loops.
AI Engineering & Deployment
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Work closely with engineering teams to deploy models using MLOps best practices.
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Design CI/CD pipelines for ML, model monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining.
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Ensure AI solutions are cloud-native and scalable (AWS / Azure / GCP).
Stakeholder & Delivery Management
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Partner with business stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
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Provide technical thought leadership during client discussions, solutioning, and proposals.
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Own delivery outcomes, timelines, and quality for AI programs.
People & Practice Leadership
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Mentor and guide data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts.
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Establish best practices, coding standards, and governance for AI development.
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Contribute to building AI capability, accelerators, and reusable frameworks within the organization.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Senior leadership?, Do you have a Master's degree?, A highly experienced Senior Data Science Lead to drive advanced AI initiatives with a strong focus on Computer Vision (CV) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This role will provide technical leadership, architecture direction, and hands-on expertise in designing, developing, and deploying scalable AI solutions for enterprise-grade use cases.
This is a highly client-facing role, requiring a strong blend of technical depth, consultative mindset, and leadership capability. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder management and team leadership capabilities., * Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence.
Experience
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10-15+ years of experience in Data Science / AI, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role.
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Proven, hands-on experience delivering Computer Vision and OCR solutions at scale.
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Strong experience working in enterprise or consulting environments.
Soft Skills & Leadership Traits
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Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
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Ability to balance hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities.
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Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
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Strong mentoring mindset and passion for building high-performing teams.