Job Title:  Manager | Data Scientist Azure | Bengaluru | Sustainability & Emerging Assurance

Your potential, unleashed.

India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realize your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organizations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

The team

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Your work profile

In our Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -

Roles & Responsibilities

 Design, build, and operate GenAI solutions on Azure, including document parsing, RAG, GenAI agents, MCP tools, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Git (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps) with Git Flow across dev, test, stage, and prod, including environment gating and approvals.

• Develop secure web and container applications on Azure (Azure Container App) and autoscaling.

• Manage secrets, certificates, and configuration via Azure Key Vault, handle file and blob storage for data ingestion and application assets.

• Enforce PIM (Privileged Identity Management), managed identities, RBAC, and least‑privilege access for services and human operators.

• Implement authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID (OIDC/OAuth2), app roles/groups, and role‑based policies for container apps and APIs.

• Build backend APIs using FastAPI and/or Django; ensure versioning, rate‑limiting, observability, and robust error handling.

• Create Streamlit frontends for internal tools and demos; design for usability, performance, and secure integration with Entra ID.

• Python development with latest versions, apply modern packaging and dependency management (poetry, uv, pipenv), type checking, and linting.

• Containerize services with Docker (multi‑stage builds, slim images, vulnerability scanning) and publish to Azure Container Registry.

• Implement document parsing pipelines using Azure Document Intelligence and Python libraries (pypdf, pdfminer, python‑docx, openpyxl, etc.) covering PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and other office formats.

• Build RAG applications with Azure AI Search: effective chunking strategies (recursive, semantic), embeddings, hybrid/vector retrieval, semantic ranking, and caching.

• Demonstrate experience with legacy RAG stacks (FAISS/Pinecone or custom vector DBs) and explain trade‑offs vs Azure AI Search.

• Evaluate RAG quality using offline and online metrics (precision/recall, answer correctness, context relevance), tools such as RAGAS/DeepEval/LangSmith; reduce hallucinations with prompt strategies, grounding, and guardrails.

• Use LangChain and LangGraph (and Azure‑adapted packages) to orchestrate chains/agents, tools, and streaming; apply observability and prompt/version management.

• Apply MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agentic frameworks to build tool‑using agents with safe execution and audit trails.

• Persist application and metadata in MongoDB or SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Azure SQL); design schemas, indexing, transactions, and performance tuning.

• Instrument applications with logging, metrics, tracing (Azure Monitor, App Insights), cost monitoring, and SLOs; handle incident response and post‑mortems.

Required qualifications:

• 3-5 Years of Proven track record of delivering production GenAI systems on Azure.

• Strong Python and API development experience with FastAPI/Django.

• Expert in Git and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps), Git Flow, environment promotion, and release management.

• Hands‑on with Azure Container Apps, Docker, ACR, autoscaling, and secure ingress.

• Deep knowledge of Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage (Blob/File), managed identity, RBAC, and PIM.

• Practical experience integrating Entra ID for authN/authZ, including app registrations, scopes, roles, and MSAL/oidc client flows.

• RAG expertise: Azure AI Search, embedding models, chunking, hybrid retrieval, semantic ranking; plus, experience with FAISS/Pinecone or similar.

• Document parsing with Azure Document Intelligence and Python libraries for PDFs, DOCX, XLSX and normalization of extracted data.

• LangChain/LangGraph proficiency with Azure integrations; familiarity with LangSmith or equivalent observability.

• Experience with MCP and agentic frameworks; safe tool invocation and governance.

• Database experience with MongoDB or SQL based DBs, including schema design and performance tuning.

• Strong DevSecOps mindset: secrets rotation, image hardening, vulnerability management, compliance, and cost control.

Nice to have:

• Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform/Helm), feature flags.

• Streaming UIs, real‑time updates, and WebSocket integrations.

• Advanced evaluation pipelines, A/B testing, and feedback loops to improve prompts and retrieval.

• Experience with Azure OpenAI, content filtering, and guardrail frameworks.

• Experience with enterprise DLP/PII policies and audit requirements.

Communication:

• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leadership:

• Proven ability to lead and mentor teams, manage projects, and deliver results.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Location and way of working.

• Base location: Bangalore
• This profile involves frequent travelling to client locations.
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customized the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation.
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for the success of engagement(s)
• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviors and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

How you’ll grow

Connect for impact

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Empower to lead

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Inclusion for all

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Drive your career

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