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EXL

Senior Data Scientist

EXL

. Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and statistical modeling solutions for complex financial and insurance business problems .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeJersey City • New Jersey • United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and deploying machine learning and statistical modeling solutions for financial and insurance sectors, with a strong focus on Generative AI and large language models. Proficient in translating complex analytical findings into actionable business insights and recommendations.

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Machine Learning AlgorithmsGenerative AIStatistical ModelingPython ProgrammingData Analysis

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Hard Skills
Regression AnalysisClassificationClusteringFeature EngineeringTime-Series ForecastingAnomaly DetectionModel ValidationSQLStatistical InferenceExperimental Design
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationStakeholder Management
Tools & Technologies
PandasNumPyScikit-LearnPyTorchTensorFlowXGBoostTransformersAWSAzureGCP
Industry Keywords
Data ScienceAdvanced AnalyticsFinancial ServicesInsuranceMLOpsNLPVector DatabasesRAG ArchitecturesModel DeploymentBusiness Insights

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformNumpyPandasPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and statistical modeling solutions for complex financial and insurance business problems
  • Build predictive models using regression, classification, clustering, segmentation, ensemble methods, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and propensity modeling
  • Perform exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, statistical inference, feature engineering, feature selection, model validation, and performance analysis
  • Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured datasets to identify patterns, trends, risk drivers, and actionable business insights
  • Develop analytics and machine learning solutions for underwriting, claims, fraud/risk detection, customer segmentation, pricing, retention, forecasting, and portfolio analytics
  • Design and develop Generative AI and LLM-based applications, including document analysis, summarization, knowledge retrieval, intelligent search, and conversational AI
  • Build RAG pipelines using embeddings, semantic search, vector databases, and enterprise knowledge sources
  • Apply prompt engineering, few-shot learning, prompt tuning, LoRA/PEFT, and fine-tuning where appropriate
  • Evaluate ML and GenAI solutions across accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC, model stability, hallucination, relevance, latency, and cost
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, ML engineers, MLOps, and product teams to translate business requirements into scalable analytical and AI solutions
  • Communicate analytical findings and model outcomes to technical and business stakeholders, focusing on business impact and decision support
  • Support productionization, monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement of ML and GenAI solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in data science or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, or Statistical Modeling
  • Hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions
  • Strong expertise in statistics and applied mathematics, including probability, hypothesis testing, statistical inference, regression analysis, experimental design, distributions, sampling, and model validation
  • Strong hands-on experience with machine learning algorithms, including regression, classification, clustering, segmentation, ensemble methods, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, feature engineering, feature selection, and model explainability/interpretability
  • Strong programming skills in Python, including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, and Transformers
  • Strong SQL and analytical data-processing skills
  • Hands-on knowledge of Generative AI, Large Language Models, NLP, transformers, embeddings, semantic search, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures
  • Experience with LLMs such as OpenAI models, Claude, Llama, Mistral, or equivalent foundation models
  • Experience with GenAI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or similar frameworks
  • Experience with vector databases/search technologies such as FAISS, Pinecone, ChromaDB, or equivalent solutions
  • Experience building and deploying scalable ML/AI solutions through APIs, batch pipelines, or real-time inference services
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Knowledge of ML/MLOps practices around model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and lifecycle management
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to translate statistical and model outputs into meaningful business recommendations
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Benefits information provided via https://www.exlservice.com/us-careers-and-benefits
  • Compensation may exceed the posted range for positions based in higher-cost zones such as California, New York, and New Jersey