Job Description

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BIU: JD for Data Science
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BIU
Sub-Department:
BIU
Location:
Mumbai/Bangalore
About BIU
Axis Bankxefxbfxbds (Business Intelligence Unit): This is a high profile team with a mandate to drive data based decisions within the bank. Reporting in to Head Banking Operations and Transformation, this department works with all businesses of the bank including retail, small business and corporate to drive analytics. In terms of functions, the department has teams focused on all aspects of analytics for the bank including risk analytics, financial analytics, crime analytics, business and marketing analytics, building predictive scores, data engineering, business reporting and data governance roles.
About the Role
Analytics is one of top focus areas for the bank and this position represents opportunity to be part of high growth teams driving innovation. This role involves understanding of model building and reviewing.
Key Responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for the following in his/her job role:
xefxbfxbd Co-own the business goals & lead problem solving, work in an agile manner with business partners, Risk-review committee members , data engineering and IT
xefxbfxbd Work with a team of data scientists and help deliver on projects in a time bound fashion.
xefxbfxbd Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures
xefxbfxbd Work in a self-directed environment, own tasks and drive them to completion
Role Proficiencies:
xefxbfxbd The candidate is required to have:
xefxbfxbd Fluency in Python, SQL/SAS xefxbfxbd hands on relevant experience
xefxbfxbd Experience in building models, with some years in building credit-Risk models
xefxbfxbd Prior experience in BFSI domain a plus
xefxbfxbd Should have good knowledge of advanced ML techniques (Logistic, XGboost, RF, ANNs, Ensembles) and understand the end to end deployment aspects
xefxbfxbd Knowledge of dockers/containers, micro services is a plus
xefxbfxbd Solid spoken and written communication skills
xefxbfxbd Should have strong analytical thinking and be able to convince stakeholders on using data-based evidenceExperience in modelling for BFSI domain preferred
xefxbfxbd Having good exposure of various deployment platforms like FICO BLAZE, BDL, ORACLE etc..
xefxbfxbd Strong track record in solving analytical problems using quantitative and statistical approaches
xefxbfxbd Ability to manipulate and analyse complex, high- volume, high- dimension data from varying sources
xefxbfxbd Technical competence in tools such as Python and/or SAS a plus
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About Company:
Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire spectrum of financial services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, MSME, Agriculture and Retail Businesses. The Bank has a large footprint of 4,594 domestic branches (including extension counters) with 11,333 ATMs & 5,710 cash recyclers spread across the country as on 31st March, 2021. The Bank has 6 Virtual Centres and has over 1500 Virtual Relationship Managers as on 31st March 2021.The Overseas operations of the Bank are spread over eight international offices with branches at Singapore, Dubai (at DIFC) and Gift City-IBU; representative offices at Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and an Overseas subsidiary at London, UK. The international offices focus on Corporate Lending, Trade Finance, Syndication, Investment Banking and Liability Businesses