Lead Associate - Data / AI

Location: Pune, India; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global is a professional services and technology firm delivering risk, insurance, digital transformation, and technology solutions to highly regulated and global businesses.

What you will do

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning and generative AI solutions.
• Define enterprise AI standards, architecture patterns, MLOps practices, and model governance frameworks.
• Partner with business leaders to identify high-value use cases and translate them into scalable AI solutions.
• Guide and mentor data scientists, ML engineers, analytics teams, and developers.
• Oversee the model lifecycle, including feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, drift monitoring, and retraining.
• Create AI roadmaps, measure business outcomes, and present technical recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, analytics, or software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams or complex AI initiatives.
• Deep expertise in machine learning algorithms, predictive modeling, NLP, LLMs, and generative AI.
• Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Azure AI Services, Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, MLOps, CI/CD, model monitoring, and production-grade ML solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global team of more than 8,000 professionals operating across ten countries.
• Contribute to research and development, innovation, automation, colleague development, and client service.
• Support insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.

Hiring process

• Stage 1: Applied.
• Stage 2: Hired.