Lead AI/ML Data Scientist for Banking Analytics

Rakbank; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakbank is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead AI/ML initiatives across customer engagement, marketing, risk, and product functions in Dubai. You will build scalable models, deploy in batch and real-time environments, and ensure reproducible, high-quality analytics.

Collaborate with analytics, engineering, and business units to translate problems into measurable outcomes, deliver end-to-end solutions, and communicate findings to stakeholders with clear documentation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in analytics or data science.
• 3-4 years in banking analytics.
• Proficient in Python and SQL.
• Experience deploying end-to-end ML models.
• Expertise: ML/DL/Time-series/Optimization and customer analytics.

Responsibilities

• Translate business problems into analytical use-cases with defined outcomes.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Data Engineers to build data pipelines and productionize models.
• Develop and test ML models, deploy to batch and real-time environments.
• Ensure reproducible, scalable code and transparent peer-review.

Skills

Python

SQL

End-to-end ML deployment

Banking analytics

Time-series

NLP

Deep Learning

Optimization

Customer analytics

AWS

Azure

Tools

SAS

Spark

Job description

Rakbank is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead AI/ML initiatives across customer engagement, marketing, risk, and product functions in Dubai. You will build scalable models, deploy in batch and real-time environments, and ensure reproducible, high-quality analytics.

Collaborate with analytics, engineering, and business units to translate problems into measurable outcomes, deliver end-to-end solutions, and communicate findings to stakeholders with clear documentation.