Banking Data Science Leader — AI & Production ML

Discovered MENA; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovered MENA is seeking a Senior Data Science Manager to lead the development and adoption of AI initiatives within a leading Abu Dhabi financial institution. You will bridge technical teams and senior stakeholders, delivering robust, production-ready models that directly influence business decisions and growth.

You will guide a team to design, deploy, and monitor models across retail, risk, credit, and operations, ensuring explainability, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration with

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data science with AI and cloud deployments.
• Banking domain knowledge and ML ops experience.
• Leadership of cross-functional/agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy ML models to improve efficiency and risk outcomes across journeys.
• Apply supervised, unsupervised, and time series modeling on structured data.
• Lead feature engineering, model selection, training, validation, benchmarking.

Skills

Data science leadership

Machine learning

Python

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud deployments

Education

Bachelor in quantitative field

Master degree preferred

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Discovered MENA is seeking a Senior Data Science Manager to lead the development and adoption of AI initiatives within a leading Abu Dhabi financial institution. You will bridge technical teams and senior stakeholders, delivering robust, production-ready models that directly influence business decisions and growth.

You will guide a team to design, deploy, and monitor models across retail, risk, credit, and operations, ensuring explainability, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration with