Machine Learning Analyst-Python and SQL

Citi; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi AIM seeks a data analytics professional to monitor, analyze, and advise on business processes. You will evaluate large data sets, build models, and help translate insights into policy and practice across CX analytics and related domains.

The role emphasizes strong coding practices, API design awareness, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams to drive actionable intelligence for leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree with relevant experience in analytics/data science.
• 5+ years of working experience for Bachelor's track or 4+ years for Master’s track.
• Analytic ability, problem solving, and quantitative mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large/complex data sets to evaluate and support business strategies.
• Identify and compile data sets using diverse tools to predict and measure outcomes.
• Document data requirements and perform data processing/EDA; apply statistical methods.
• Role may be referred to as Data Scientist in practice.
• Assess risk and ensure compliance with policies while safeguarding firm and clients.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

NLP

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree with atleast 5 years of working experience

Master’s Degree with 4 years of working experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / IT

Tools

PySpark

Jenkins

Git

APIs

SQL

Job description

About CITI

Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We have 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the world's toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities.

Analytics and Information Management (AIM)

Citi AIM was established in 2003, and is located across multiple cities in India - Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai. It is a global community that objectively connects and analyzes information, to create actionable intelligence for our business leaders. It identifies fact-based opportunities for revenue growth in partnership with the businesses. The function balances customer needs, business strategy, and profit objectives using best in class and relevant analytic methodologies.

What do we do?

The North America Consumer Bank - Customer Experience (CX) Analytics is a specialized function dedicated to understanding, measuring, and improving the interactions and overall satisfaction of customers across all touchpoints with the bank. In today’s competitive financial services landscape, delivering a seamless and positive customer experience is critical for retention, loyalty, and growth. Citibank leverages CXA to ensure that every customer journey—from opening an account to resolving a dispute—is as smooth and satisfactory as possible. The team collects, analyzes, and interprets customer feedback and interaction data across channels (phone, online, branch, etc.) to identify pain points, trends, and opportunities for service improvement. The team uses these insights to enhance customer satisfaction, streamline processes, and inform business decisions to improve overall customer experience.

Role Description

The Spec Analytics Analyst is a developing professional role. Applies specialty area knowledge in monitoring, assessing, analyzing and/or evaluating processes and data. Identifies policy gaps and formulates policies. Interprets data and makes recommendations. Researches and interprets factual information. Identifies inconsistencies in data or results, defines business issues and formulates recommendations on policies, procedures or practices. Integrates established disciplinary knowledge within own specialty area with basic understanding of related industry practices. Good understanding of how the team interacts with others in accomplishing the objectives of the area. Develops working knowledge of industry practices and standards. Limited but direct impact on the business through the quality of the tasks/services provided. Impact of the job holder is restricted to own team.

Responsibilities

• Incumbents work with large and complex data sets (both internal and external data) to evaluate, recommend, and support the implementation of business strategies
• Identifies and compiles data sets using a variety of tools (e.g. SQL, Access) to help predict, improve, and measure the success of key business to business outcomes
• Responsible for documenting data requirements, data collection / processing / cleaning, and exploratory data analysis; which may include utilizing statistical models / algorithms and data visualization techniques
• Incumbents in this role may often be referred to as Data Scientists
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Technical Skills

• Hands‑on Experience in Python, SQL & Machine Learning (ML) is a must.
• Experience with PySpark, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLM/Gen AI), and prompt engineering is preferred.
• Writing clean, efficient, and well‑documented code according to design specifications and coding standards.
• Utilizing version control systems (e.g., Git) to manage code changes, collaborate with team members, and maintain code history.
• Configuring and maintaining automated build processes (e.g., using Jenkins) to compile code, run unit tests, and create deployable artifacts.
• Ability to execute the code testing in Dev & UAT environments
• Automate deployment pipelines, follow release procedures, verify post‑deployment, and troubleshoot production issues, if any.
• Understand dependencies, design/consume APIs, ensure data flow integrity, resolve integration issues, and maintain architectural awareness.
• Capability to validate/maintain deployed models in production
• Candidates with a background in Customer Experience (CX) analytics is preferred.
• Exposure to Credit card business is a strong plus for this position.
• Familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is preferred.
• Prior experience of Sprints deployment cycle is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with atleast 5 years of working experience OR Master’s Degree with 4 years of working experience.
• Possess analytic ability and problem solving skills
• Working experience in a quantitative field
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be organized, detail oriented, and adaptive to matrix work environment
• Ability to build partnerships with cross‑functional teams

Education

• Bachelors/University degree in Computer Science Engg. / IT is preferred.

Job Family Group

Decision Management

Job Family

Specialized Analytics (Data Science/Computational Statistics)

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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