Senior Data Scientist

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Bangalore, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
In-Office
Cloud • Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. It was founded by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015.

Our flagship processing platform - Zeta Tachyon - is the industry’s first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack that brings together issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and many more capabilities as a single-vendor stack. 15M+ cards have been issued on our platform globally.

Zeta is actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios.

Zeta has over 1700+ employees - with over 70% roles in R&D - across locations in the US, EMEA, and Asia. We raised $280 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Softbank, Mastercard, and other investors in 2021.

The Role

  • This role provides an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of AI innovation, contributing to the development and implementation of solutions that push the boundaries of technology.
  • If you are passionate about AI, thrive in a collaborative environment, and enjoy driving impactful projects, this position offers a platform for creativity and professional growth. Join us in shaping the future of AI applications

Responsibilities:

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate seamlessly with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to conceptualize, design, and construct AI systems for diverse applications, including Email Suites, Conversational chatbots, and various NLP and ML use cases.
  • Innovative Model Development: Lead the development of inventive strategies and models, ensuring practical operationalization of AI solutions in alignment with organizational goals.
  • Ideation and Analysis: Generate ideas for exploratory analysis, actively shaping the trajectory of future projects. Provide insightful recommendations for strategic actions based on data-driven insights.
  • Rapid Prototyping and Product Discussions: Drive the rapid prototyping of solutions, actively participating in discussions related to product and feature development.
  • Dashboard Creation and Reporting: Develop dashboards and comprehensive documentation to effectively communicate results. Regularly monitor key data metrics, facilitating informed decision-making.
  • Integration with Production Systems: Collaborate closely with software engineers to deploy and integrate data models into production systems. Ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency of integrated solutions.
  • Business Metrics Identification: Identify and analyze key business metrics, offering strategic insights. Recommend product features based on the identified metrics to enhance overall product functionality

Skills

  • Exceptional quantitative and problem-solving skills - capable of tackling complex data-driven challenges and formulating effective solutions.
  • Solid understanding of natural language processing (NLP) - Fundamentals, including techniques such as named entity recognition (NER), topic modeling, and sentiment analysis.
  • Proven proficiency - In essential data science libraries, including Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, and Scikit-Learn, for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.
  • In-depth expertise in Python programming - Focus on data analysis, model building, and algorithmic implementation.
  • Experience with distributed computing frameworks - Hadoop or Spark, for handling large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks.
  • Comprehensive understanding - Supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques, including decision trees, random forests, boosting algorithms, and clustering methods.

Experience and Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in Machine Learning/Data Science, Applied Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering
  • Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience with a proven track record of developing ML solutions.

Life At Zeta

At Zeta, we want you to grow to be the best version of yourself by unlocking the great potential that lies within you. This is why our core philosophy is ‘People Must Grow.’ We recognize your aspirations; act as enablers by bringing you the right opportunities, and let you grow as you chase disruptive goals. 

#LifeAtZeta is adventurous and exhilarating at the same time. You get to work with some of the best minds in the industry and experience a culture that values the diversity of thoughts. If you want to push boundaries, learn continuously and grow to be the best version of yourself,  Zeta is the place to be!  Explore the life at zeta 

Zeta is an equal opportunity employer.  
At Zeta, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of job history, disability, gender identity, religion, race, marital/parental status, or another special status. We are proud to be an equitable workplace that welcomes individuals from all walks of life if they fit the roles and responsibilities.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
1,834 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Founded in 2015, Zeta is a provider of next-gen credit card processing platform. Zeta’s cloud-native and fully API-enabled stack offers a comprehensive range of capabilities, including processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud detection, and loyalty programs. With a strong focus on technology, Zeta has over 1700+ employees and contractors, with more than 70% dedicated to technology roles. Operating across the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia, Zeta has served a global customer base of 35+ clients who have issued over 15 million cards on Zeta's platform to date. Backed by prominent investors such as Softbank Vision Fund 2 and Mastercard, Zeta has raised $280 million, at a valuation of $1.5 billion.

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