Lead Data Scientist - AI

requirements and direction, and establish development roadmaps. Develop and deploy AI-powered document intelligence solutions to extract, structure, validate, and generate insights from complex financial documents, including regulatory filings, financial statements, earnings transcripts, research reports, and other unstructured content. Design and optimize scalable retrieval and knowledge discovery frameworks using OCR, NLP, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable accurate information extraction and analysis. What you'll bring Essential Skills 10+ years of Extensive experience applying data science methods to solve real-world problems with a proven track record of deploying AI models and solutions to production. Strong data analysis skills, with a foundation in probability, to lead robust model development and interpretation. Proficiency in Object-Oriented programming in Python with expertise in key data science and machine learning libraries (e.g. Tensor Flow, Py Torch and Scikit-Learn). Expertise in cloud technologies (emphasis on Azure and/or AWS) and deployment practices, ensuring seamless and scalable delivery. Proven track record to establish and uphold coding standards to ensure high-quality, maintainable code. Excellent communication skills for summarizing complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical partners. Proven experience building production-grade document intelligence solutions for extracting, structuring, and analyzing text-based information from large and complex financial documents using OCR, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), NLP, information extraction, and Generative AI techniques. Hands-on expertise with industry-leading AI and document understanding platforms, frameworks, and tools, including but not limited to Open AI, Gemini, Claude, Llama, Azure AI Document Intelligence, AWS Textract, Google Document AI, Lang Chain, Llama Index, vector databases, and related technologies. Desirable skills Working knowledge of Dev Ops practices, including code versioning, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring, to streamline development workflows and improve deployment reliability. Education Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or related field, or equivalent work experience What you’ll get in return High-impact projects: We work on a variety of pioneering AI products and leverage extensive datasets to solve complex, high-value challenges. Competitive benefits: You will enjoy a strong compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and ongoing investment in career growth and skill development. Industry leadership: This is an opportunity to be a founding member of the organization that’s delivering brand-new products that democratize modeling and analytics solutions. Collaborative environment: We provide opportunities for continuous learning and professional development in a work environment of dedicated, highly experienced teams. We recognize that to attract the best talent, we need to be flexible, and we are open to discussing work arrangements with you. We take a hybrid approach to the workplace; this role is considered ‘digital first’, which requires attending the office at least one day per week while some teams and colleagues choose to collaborate in the office more frequently. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. 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