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IDFC FIRST Bank

Posted 27 Aug 2026

Lead Data Scientist

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Employment
Full time
Team
Data Science & Analytics
Posted
27 Aug 2026

About the role

Responsibilities:

  • Build and deploy credit risk/collections/fraud models
  • Developapplication and behavioral scorecards using statistical techniques
  • Own the complete model lifecycle: data features, modeling, validation, deployment
  • Partner with business, product, and tech teams to solve high-impact problems
  • Drive model monitoring, performance tracking, and recalibration
  • Ensure model governance and regulatory compliance
  • Mentor junior team members and guide modelling best practices


Requirements:

  • 6+ years of experience in credit risk modelling/analytics
  • Strong hands-on experience with scorecard development (logistic regression)
  • Proficiency in Python / SAS / SQL
  • Experience handling large datasets & feature engineering
  • Strong understanding of the BFSI / banking domain
  • Exposure to model validation, governance, and regulatory frameworks
  • Strong stakeholder management and problem-solving ability


Secondary Requirements:

  • Experience ML models (XGBoost, LightGBM, etc. ).
  • Exposure to collections/fraud/rural lending models.
  • Prior experience mentoring or leading small teams.

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