Data Scientist II - Analysis Lifecycle

Delivery Hero; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading delivery company in Dubai seeks a Data Scientist to improve data-driven decision-making and mentor team members. The ideal candidate has 3 years of experience in data science and SQL expertise, along with strong collaboration and communication skills. This full-time position does not offer remote work options and provides an opportunity to make impactful decisions.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in data science and machine learning.
• Experience in online consumer product setting is a plus.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive decisions using reliable and actionable data.
• Work closely with product and business teams for data insights.
• Mentor other data scientists.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis with Python or R

Data modeling

Experiment design and analysis

Collaboration skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Ownership and accountability

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, technology or related

Tools

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform

Airflow

ML frameworks (e.g. Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM)

Job description

Role Summary

As the leading delivery company in the region we have a great responsibility and opportunity to impact the lives of millions of customers restaurant partners and riders. To realize our potential we need to advance our platform to become much more intelligent in how it understands and serves our users.
As a data scientist on the analysis track your mission will be to improve the quality of the decisions made across product and business via relevant reliable and actionable data. You will own a particular domain across product and business and will work closely with the corresponding product and business managers as part of a talented team of data scientists and data engineers. You will own the entire data value chain including logging data modeling analysis reporting and experimentation.

Whats On Your Plate

• Leveraging ambiguous business problems as opportunities to drive objective criteria using data.
• Developing a deep understanding of the product experiences and business processes that make up your area of focus.
• Developing a deep familiarity with the source data and its generating systems through documentation interacting with the engineering teams and systematic data profiling.
• Contributing heavily to the design and maintenance of the data models that allow us to measure performance and comprehend performance drivers for your area of focus.
• Working closely with product and business teams to identify important questions that can be answered effectively with data.
• Delivering well‑formed relevant reliable and actionable insights and recommendations to support data‑driven decision‑making through deep analysis and automated reports.
• Designing, planning and analyzing experiments (A/B and multi‑variate tests).
• Supporting product and business managers with KPI design and goal setting.
• Mentoring other data scientists in their growth journeys.
• Contributing to improving our ways of work, our tooling and our internal training programs.

What Did We Order

Technical Experience

• Excellent SQL.
• Competence with reproducible data analysis using Python or R.
• Familiarity with data modeling and dimensional design.
• Strong command over the entire data analysis lifecycle including problem formulation, data auditing, rigorous analysis, interpretation, recommendations and presentation.
• Familiarity with different types of analysis including descriptive, exploratory, inferential, causal and predictive analysis.
• Deep understanding of the various experiment design and analysis workflows and the corresponding statistical techniques.
• Familiarity with product data (impressions/events … and product health measurement (conversion, engagement, retention …).
• Familiarity with BigQuery and the Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
• Data engineering and data pipeline development experience (e.g. via Airflow) is a plus.
• Experience with classical ML frameworks (e.g. Scikit‑learn, XGBoost, LightGBM …) is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, technology or similar fields. A postgraduate degree is a plus but not required.
• 3 years of overall experience working in data science and machine learning.
• Experience doing data science in an online consumer product setting is a plus.
• A good problem solver with a “figure it out” growth mindset.
• An excellent collaborator.
• An excellent communicator.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• A keep‑it‑simple approach to “make it happen.”

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Fulltime