Banking Data Scientist — Risk Models & AI Solutions

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Gold level health insurance

Visa sponsorship

Professional development

Job summary

DeepLight AI seeks a data scientist with deep banking domain awareness to design, develop, and deploy robust statistical models for premier regional clients. You will build risk models for Treasury, Wholesale Banking, and Corporate Lending, translating complex financial challenges into production-ready solutions.

Collaboration with risk officers and analysts is essential as you optimize capital, assess risk, and ensure regulatory alignment across Basel standards.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design statistical risk models for banking environments.
• Strong Python programming and data analysis skills for production code.
• Solid understanding of ML methods and statistical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy statistical risk models for banking divisions.
• Develop risk-adjusted capital and capital optimization modules.
• Ensure Basel III/IV compliance in model design and validation.
• Write clean, modular Python code and participate in code reviews.
• Collaborate with risk officers and analysts to translate requirements.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Python

ML frameworks

Banking domain

Regulatory knowledge Basel

Data science

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in quantitative field

Tools

PySpark

Spark

Dask

Pandas

Scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Plotly

Job description

DeepLight AI seeks a data scientist with deep banking domain awareness to design, develop, and deploy robust statistical models for premier regional clients. You will build risk models for Treasury, Wholesale Banking, and Corporate Lending, translating complex financial challenges into production-ready solutions.

Collaboration with risk officers and analysts is essential as you optimize capital, assess risk, and ensure regulatory alignment across Basel standards.