Lead Data Scientist - AI/ML & GenAI

The Company: A leader in innovative solutions, committed to excellence and customer satisfaction.

Egon Zehnder (www.egonzehnder.com) is trusted advisor to many of the world’s most respected organizations and a leading Executive Search firm, with more than 600+ consultants and 69 offices in 41 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our clients range from the largest corporations to emerging growth companies, government and regulatory bodies, and major educational and cultural institutions. The firm is a private partnership which allows us to operate independent of any outside interests. As a result of this unique culture, Egon Zehnder has the highest professional staff retention rate for a global firm in our profession. We have a blue-chip client base across all industries and operate at the Board and senior management level.

Knowledge Centre India (KCI)

Knowledge Center India (KCI) is the central engine that drives the operational value for the firm. Established in 2004, KCI has evolved over the years from purely operational efficiencies into more value-added service offerings, becoming a true business partner. There are various teams based at KCI that work with Global Offices, Practice Groups, and the Management across all aspects of the firm's business life cycle. With a headcount of more than 500, the center has 5 core teams working including Experts, Research Operations, Visual Solutions, Projects/CV Capture and Digital IT, working round the clock on many mission critical elements.

Who We Are!

We are part of Digital-IT team established 17 years ago in Gurgaon, India to provide technology support and rollout digital initiatives to 60 plus global offices. Digital IT has six key pillars – Collaboration Technology; Functional Technology; Digital Technology; Security & Architecture; Infrastructure & Services, Digital Success to support business and to take lead on digital transformation initiatives with the total strength of 150+ team members across the globe.

We are looking for a highly skilled and intellectually curious Senior Data Scientist with 10+ years of experience in applying advanced machine learning and AI techniques to solve complex business problems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Classical Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Generative AI (GenAI), along with strong hands-on coding skills and a proven track record of delivering impactful data science solutions. This role requires a blend of technical excellence, business acumen, and collaborative mindset and potential to lead a technical team. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and deploy ML models using classical algorithms (e.g., regression, decision trees, ensemble methods) and deep learning architectures (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers). 

• Build NLP solutions for tasks such as text classification, entity recognition, summarization, and conversational AI. 

• Develop and fine-tune GenAI models for use cases like content generation, code synthesis, and personalization. 

• Architect and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for enhanced contextual AI applications. 

• Collaborate with data engineers to build scalable data pipelines and feature stores. 

• Perform advanced feature engineering and selection to improve model accuracy and robustness. 

• Work with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets using distributed computing frameworks. 

• Translate business problems into data science solutions and communicate findings to stakeholders. 

• Present insights and recommendations through compelling storytelling and visualization. 

• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to internal knowledge sharing and innovation.