Senior Director, Data Science (R-16664)

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We are seeking an exceptional Senior Director, Data Science with a proven history of leading teams through complete model operations and implementations at the intersection of analytics, technology, product, and business.
The Senior Director, Data Science role involves acting as a bridge between multiple stakeholders, including Sales, Statistical Modeling, Technology, Product Owners, and D&B's external clients.
The ideal Senior Director, Data Science is a self-motivated individual who will drive all assigned projects forward, ensuring the delivery of top-notch, data-driven analytics solutions to our customers.
Success in this role requires excelling at tackling various business challenges through the application of diverse tools, strategies, algorithms, and programming languages.
We are a team dedicated to supporting and respecting each other, where success is defined by what's best for our customers, colleagues, and Dun & Bradstreet.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Collaboration
• Collaborate across Data Science during the model / Insight building process on best practices prior implementation for all D&B Standard and Custom Scores.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, technology software engineers, and DevOps teams to streamline the machine learning and LLM powered application lifecycles and optimize AI application performance.
• Thought leadership / tool recommendations for efficiency within the data science function.
• Though leadership and mentoring our Chennai Analytics teams in new methodologies and best practices within Implementations and Monitoring.
• Support Risk, S&MS, Public Sector, Capital Market and GenAi Apps Solutions.


• GenAI Observability & monitoring
• Ability to partner with D&B Data Science and Technology and become a key thought leader, as we continue evolving our GenAI observability & monitoring.
• The individual should be able to quickly get up-to-speed on numerous frameworks and software applications, both from the data governance and technical implementation perspectives.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build rapport with senior stakeholders across Technology, Data Science, Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and Product.
• Comfort with highly technical environments, such as data warehousing, enterprise architecture and software implementations.
• Strong demonstrated experience of driving data engineering performed on very large and diverse datasets, both structured and unstructured.
• Strong capacity planning, sizing and budgeting skills.


• Capital Markets Operations
• Ability to lead data engineering and architecture design for analytics platforms in support of Capital Markets customer-facing initiatives.
• Demonstrated commitment to exceptional customer service in fast-paced and demanding environments and ability to build relationships based on trust and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Exceptionally strong ability to support custom analytic delivery as necessary and standardize / modernize legacy custom processes.


• MLOps
• Collaborate with data scientists to understand model requirements and deployment constraints.
• Partner with technology teams to design and develop an MLOps architecture that progressively achieves optimal maturity.
• Collaborate with technology and recommend scalable and reliable processes to handle model inference at scale.
• Collaborate with technology to develop containerization and orchestration solutions for model deployment.


• Collaborate with Technology
• Collaborate with technology partners to develop and maintain automated pipelines for model training, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with technology partners and champion CI/CD practices to facilitate rapid and reliable model updates.


• Best Practice Model Reviews, Validations and Product Consumption
• Model review, refactoring, and optimization.
• Models testing, validation and tests automation.
• Champion and collaborate with product on ingesting new scores seamlessly requiring minimal product intervention.
• Enhance Data Presentation: Utilize visual tools such as ESRI softwa