Senior Lead Data Science

NPCI • Financial Software & Embedded Finance • Payment Processing & Gateways • Python • SQL • 5 months ago
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≈ $29k – $64k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Hyderabad)
Seniority
Staff · 8+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on May 13, 2026.

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NPCI

NPCI operates the retail payment infrastructure that underpins Indian digital transactions. It built the unified payments interface, immediate payment service and a domestic card network. The organisation is owned collectively by Indian banks.
npci.org.in • HQ: Mumbai, India • Financial Software & Embedded Finance • Payment Processing & Gateways • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2008
Tech stack of NPCI

Experience: 8-12 years

Job Description:

This is a Senior Data Science role, requiring strong hands-on expertise along with leadership capability. The candidate must have experience building and scaling large, production-grade AI/ML systems in complex environments.

The ideal profile should include:

  • Strong foundation in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Statistics
  • Hands-on experience with Python, TensorFlow and PyTorch
  • Experience working on large-scale data systems and Big Data stack
  • CI/CD implementation for ML systems
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • MinIO, Trino, Feature Store architecture
  • GPU computing, CUDA, and NVIDIA stack
  • Strong SQL expertise
  • Federated AI architecture knowledge
  • System design experience focusing on latency, scalability, and observability
  • Exposure to LLMs and Agentic AI systems

This role requires someone capable of designing and delivering end-to-end AI systems from data engineering and feature design to model deployment, scaling, and monitoring.

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