Senior Data Science Specialist

Specialist, Data Science

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Key Responsibilities

AI System & Agentic Workflows

• Design, build, and optimize agentic AI systems using modern agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, Haystack Agents, ReAct-style agents).
• Implement multi-agent collaboration patterns, task orchestration, memory architectures, tool integrations, and reasoning-enhancing strategies.
• Develop secure, robust, and scalable tool‑calling and function-execution flows for agents operating in dynamic environments.

RAG Architecture & LLM Applications

• Architect and deploy RAG pipelines, including:
  • Document ingestion, text splitting, metadata extraction
  • Vector database integration (e.g., Postgress)
  • Query transformation, retrieval optimization, re-ranking, and grounding
• Evaluate and optimize RAG components for latency, accuracy, hallucination reduction, and domain specificity.
• Integrate RAG workflows with LLMs from OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models.

Data Science & Machine Learning

• Build and maintain end‑to‑end ML pipelines including feature engineering, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and deployment.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA), statistical modeling, and experiment design.
• Implement MLOps practices for versioning, monitoring, and model governance.

Software Engineering & Deployment

• Build production-grade APIs and microservices for AI systems.
• Work with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) to deploy scalable and cost-efficient AI infrastructure.
• Establish CI/CD workflows for model deployment, evaluations, and automated testing.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• 7–8 years of industry experience in AI/ML engineering, data science, or full‑stack AI solution architecture.
• Strong proficiency in Python, including libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and Scikit-learn.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, embeddings, vector search, and RAG best practices.
• Experience with agentic AI architectures, tool-calling, and autonomous agent design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based AI services (Azure AI, AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI).
• Strong data engineering fundamentals (Spark, SQL, ETL pipelines).
• Experience deploying AI systems in production using containers (Docker), Kubernetes, or serverless architectures.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Data, DevOps).
• Ownership mindset with strong focus on delivering high-quality solutions.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Skills

• Experience with evaluation frameworks (e.g., RAGAS, LangSmith, DeepEval).
• Familiarity with knowledge graph augmentation for enterprise RAG.
• Exposure to multi-modal AI systems (vision, speech, structured data).
• Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and AI safety practices.

 

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.

Experience Level

Senior Level