# Lead Data Scientist

The Opportunity You will be part of NPCI's Market Innovation & AI Engineering team, driving the development of next-generation Machine Learning and Deep Learning systems powering India's largest digital payments ecosystem. This role focuses on solving large-scale real-world problems using advanced Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Deep Learning, Graph Analytics, and Distributed AI Systems. You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling production-grade AI platforms that process billions of transactions while maintaining high standards of latency, reliability, explainability, and operational excellence. The role offers a unique opportunity to work on: Fraud Detection & Risk Modeling AML & Financial Crime Analytics Behavioral Intelligence Systems Transaction Intelligence Platforms Large Scale Anomaly Detection Systems Graph-based Network Analytics Real-Time Decisioning Systems GPU Accelerated AI Workloads You will collaborate closely with engineering teams, data platform teams, domain experts, and leading academic institutions to build cutting-edge AI solutions for large-scale financial ecosystems. Job Details Job Title Lead Data Scientist Division Market Innovati

- **Id**: 3864281
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/npci-lead-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T11:25:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:22:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5313
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Payment Processing & Gateways, Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure

## Company

- **Id**: 59461
- **Name**: NPCI
- **Domain**: npci.org.in
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/npci>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Zoho Recruit

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 123
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CNN** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Feature Store** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Hypothesis** — Optional: no
- **Keras** — Optional: no
- **Kubeflow** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: yes
- **Hadoop** — Optional: yes
- **Jenkins** — Optional: yes
- **MinIO** — Optional: yes
- **RAPIDS** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes
- **Trino** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T11:25:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 123
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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