Banking Data Science Leader — AI Strategy & Risk

Jex Recruitment | Connecting top talent with leading companies; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Leading Bank in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Manager - Data Science to shape the data strategy for a top regional financial institution. You will lead a growing team of data scientists and ML engineers, guiding high-impact analytics initiatives across risk, pricing, and customer insights.

The role requires a proven track record in banking or financial services, deep ML and data-engineering expertise, and strong stakeholder management to translate data science into business value.

Qualifications

• Senior data science leadership experience, ideally in banking or financial services.
• Strong ML, statistical modeling and data engineering fundamentals.
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing data science teams.
• Experience navigating banking regulatory and risk considerations.
• Excellent ability to translate data science into business value.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of data scientists and ML engineers.
• Define and execute the bank's data science and AI strategy.
• Drive use cases across risk, fraud, analytics, and personalization.
• Partner with technology, risk, and business stakeholders to embed data science into decisions.
• Champion best practices in model governance, MLOps, and responsible AI.

Skills

Data science leadership

Banking / financial services

ML & statistics

Stakeholder management

Tools

MLOps

Job description

Leading Bank in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Manager - Data Science to shape the data strategy for a top regional financial institution. You will lead a growing team of data scientists and ML engineers, guiding high-impact analytics initiatives across risk, pricing, and customer insights.

The role requires a proven track record in banking or financial services, deep ML and data-engineering expertise, and strong stakeholder management to translate data science into business value.