Chief Data Analytics Officer (AI/ML)

As an experienced Data & ML Engineering Leader at Credit Saison India, your primary responsibility will be to build and scale ML engineering and data engineering functions. You will establish MLOps frameworks for standardized, production-grade model development and monitoring, ensuring smooth model transition from data science experimentation to live deployment. Your role will also involve enabling DS & Risk teams to build, test, and deploy models with minimal engineering bottlenecks. Key Responsibilities:

• Expand decisioning systems across functional pods such as credit, pricing, collections, fraud, cross-sell, and customer management to drive consistent, explainable, and auditable decision-making. - Build modern, scalable data platforms including real-time ingestion, lakehouse, and event-driven systems. - Ensure full lifecycle governance of data from sourcing to archival, partnering with governance teams to enable lineage, auditability, and regulatory compliance. - Lead DataOps, L1/L2 support, and SRE teams to maintain and implement automated testing, proactive monitoring, and self-healing systems. - Optimize infra utilization and cloud cost efficiency while delivering platform capabilities and decisioning products aligned to business KPIs such as loan volume growth, risk reduction, ticket size expansion, and collections efficiency. Qualifications Required:

• 15 to 20 years of experience in data engineering, ML engineering, or platform leadership, with at least 8 to 10 years in senior management roles. - Proven success in building and scaling large-scale data/ML platforms in fast-paced environments, preferably in the fintech industry. - Strong academic foundation with a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or quantitative fields from reputed Indian institutions like IIT, IISc, BITS, or NIT. - Deep expertise in data platform design, MLOps frameworks, model lifecycle management, decisioning platforms, distributed computing, big data frameworks, cloud platforms, container orchestration, data governance, compliance frameworks, programming, and scripting. At Credit Saison India, you will be part of a global financial company with a strong commitment to bringing people, partners, and technology together to create innovative financial solutions for positive impact. With a rich history and a focus on transformative partnerships, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the growth and evolution of the company's offerings in India, serving MSMEs, households, individuals, and more. As an experienced Data & ML Engineering Leader at Credit Saison India, your primary responsibility will be to build and scale ML engineering and data engineering functions. You will establish MLOps frameworks for standardized, production-grade model development and monitoring, ensuring smooth model transition from data science experimentation to live deployment. Your role will also involve enabling DS & Risk teams to build, test, and deploy models with minimal engineering bottlenecks. Key Responsibilities: