Lead Data Scientist- Gen AI-ML- Vice president

Citi; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Lead Gen AI/ML Data Scientist to join the Olympus Data Reconciliation and Engineering team. You will drive the full ML lifecycle, from ideation to deployment, shaping AI capabilities powering enterprise-scale reconciliation across global processing hubs.

You will lead end-to-end model development, analyze vast financial datasets, and translate findings into strategic recommendations for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on experience in Gen AI/ML development and big data engineering within Financial Services, Insurance, or Telecom environments.
• Proven experience building and deploying Agentic AI and LLM-based solutions using LangGraph, LangChain, and ADK.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AI and machine learning models — including Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions — to solve complex reconciliation and data engineering challenges at enterprise scale.
• Lead the end-to-end ML model development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and data preprocessing through to ensemble modeling, validation, and production integration.
• Analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured financial data to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities for optimization across banking platforms.
• Define and deliver ML model roadmaps in collaboration with technical and business teams, ensuring alignment with project timelines, budgets, and Citi's architecture standards.
• Translate complex data findings into clear visualizations and strategic recommendations that inform decisions made by senior business and technology leaders.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless model integration, long-term scalability, and reliable performance in production environments.
• Identify and communicate technology risks and their business implications, developing mitigation strategies and maintaining transparency with stakeholders at all levels.
• Maintain comprehensive model documentation and support knowledge transfer to ensure continuity and adoption across teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Gen AI/ML

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

Pandas/Numpy

LangGraph

LangChain

ADK

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Data Science/Math

Tools

Git/GitHub/Bitbucket

Mlflow/Weights & Biases/DVC

Plotly/Matplotlib

Job description

About the Team:

Citi is looking for a Lead Gen AI/ML- Data Scientist to join the Olympus Data Reconciliation and Engineering team, where you will shape the next generation of AI and machine learning capabilities powering enterprise-scale reconciliation across global processing hubs.

In this role, you will drive the full lifecycle of ML model development — from ideation and architecture through to deployment and adoption — delivering measurable impact across Capital Markets operations, risk, and finance. Your work will sit at the intersection of advanced data science and real-world financial systems, influencing outcomes at a global scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy AI and machine learning models — including Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions — to solve complex reconciliation and data engineering challenges at enterprise scale.
• Lead the end-to-end ML model development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and data preprocessing through to ensemble modeling, validation, and production integration.
• Analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured financial data to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities for optimization across banking platforms.
• Define and deliver ML model roadmaps in collaboration with technical and business teams, ensuring alignment with project timelines, budgets, and Citi's architecture standards.
• Translate complex data findings into clear visualizations and strategic recommendations that inform decisions made by senior business and technology leaders.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless model integration, long-term scalability, and reliable performance in production environments.
• Identify and communicate technology risks and their business implications, developing mitigation strategies and maintaining transparency with stakeholders at all levels.
• Maintain comprehensive model documentation and support knowledge transfer to ensure continuity and adoption across teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 10+ years hands-on experience in Gen AI/ML development and big data engineering within Financial Services, Insurance, or Telecom environments
• Expert-level proficiency in Python (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy), and SQL
• Deep technical knowledge implementing supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms: linear/logistic regression, neural networks (CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformers), k-means clustering, DBSCAN, decision trees (CART, C4.5), and ensemble methods (Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost)
• Proven experience building and deploying Agentic AI and LLM-based solutions using:
  • LangGraph for complex agent orchestration and state management
  • LangChain for chain-of-thought reasoning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Agent Development Kit (ADK) for enterprise-grade autonomous agent development

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with advanced statistical modeling: Generalized Linear Models (GLM), Random Forest, Gradient Boosting (AdaBoost, XGBoost), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques including text mining, topic modeling (LDA), and sentiment analysis
• Experience with model versioning and experiment tracking tools (Mlflow, Weights & Biases, DVC)
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub/Bitbucket for version control and collaborative development
• Familiarity with data visualization libraries (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly) and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience with real-time streaming data frameworks (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Passion for staying current with emerging AI/ML frameworks, research papers, and open-source contributions
• Proven experience building and deploying Agentic AI and LLM-based solutions using:
  • LangGraph for complex agent orchestration and state management
  • LangChain for chain-of-thought reasoning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Agent Development Kit (ADK) for enterprise-grade autonomous agent development

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics or related fields of study.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Data Science

Time Type:

Full time

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