Senior Data Scientist: GenAI & Production ML Lead

Kroll Global Solutions Inc.; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroll is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to join its Enterprise Data Group in Manila. You will lead end-to-end ML initiatives, mentor junior team members, and partner with business and engineering stakeholders to translate complex problems into production-grade data science solutions.

The role spans fintech product development, digital transformation, process automation with ML, BI, data governance, and generative AI, with collaboration across world-class financial institutions and government

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in CS, statistics, mathematics, analytics, or related field.
• 5+ years of applied machine learning experience, including delivering models to production.
• Strong Python skills and the modern ML stack (scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow, pandas, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Spark/PySpark.
• Production experience on Azure — including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, and Azure Data Lake.
• Breadth across ML domains: traditional ML, deep learning, NLP, and GenAI; prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, agentic workflows.
• Experience building LLM/GenAI applications — prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, embeddings, vector databases, evaluation.
• Full ML lifecycle: data validation, feature engineering, model design, experimentation, deployment, monitoring.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data, including text, documents, and semi-structured sources.
• Strong statistical foundation and ability to reason about uncertainty, bias, and model risk.
• Excellent technical and business communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, research, implement, and evaluate ML solutions spanning traditional ML, deep learning, NLP, and LLM/GenAI applications
• Build and fine-tune models — from gradient-boosted trees and transformer-based architectures and RAG systems
• Develop and optimize prompts, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails for LLM-powered applications
• Engineer scalable data and ML pipelines in Databricks using PySpark, Delta Lake, and MLflow
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain models in production on Azure (Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Functions, AKS), including CI/CD, model versioning, and drift detection
• Validate model inputs, outputs, and business impact; establish robust testing and monitoring practices
• Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to scope problems and translate ML capabilities into measurable outcomes
• Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and results to non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and clients
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to team standards around code quality, experimentation, and responsible AI

Skills

Python programming

ML model deployment

Azure ML

Databricks

Spark/PySpark

Hugging Face Transformers

LangChain

Education

MS or PhD in CS/Statistics/Math/Analytics

Tools

Databricks

MLflow

Azure OpenAI Service

Azure AI Foundry

Unity Catalog

Spark/PySpark

Azure Data Lake

Job description

Kroll is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to join its Enterprise Data Group in Manila. You will lead end-to-end ML initiatives, mentor junior team members, and partner with business and engineering stakeholders to translate complex problems into production-grade data science solutions.

The role spans fintech product development, digital transformation, process automation with ML, BI, data governance, and generative AI, with collaboration across world-class financial institutions and government