Lead Data Scientist, AI/ML for Banking

TALENTMATE; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

RAKBANK is seeking a Staff Data Science professional to lead AI/ML solution delivery across customer engagement, marketing, risk and product functions. The role demands strong analytics, hands-on open‑source tech, and the ability to deploy models in batch and real‑time environments.

You will translate business problems into analytical use‑cases, collaborate across teams, and ensure reproducible, scalable data science with high‑quality delivery and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of analytics or data science experience.
• 3-4 years in banking analytics.
• Python and SQL experience required.
• End-to-end ML model deployment experience.
• 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 algorithms for use-cases across domains.
• Ensure reproducible, high‑quality coding standards and stakeholder communication.
• Deliver end‑to‑end AI/ML models from development to deployment with planning and usage guidance.
• Support MIS and SAS data modelling and streamline reporting.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML deployment

Analytics

Tools

SAS

R

Spark

Job description

RAKBANK is seeking a Staff Data Science professional to lead AI/ML solution delivery across customer engagement, marketing, risk and product functions. The role demands strong analytics, hands-on open‑source tech, and the ability to deploy models in batch and real‑time environments.

You will translate business problems into analytical use‑cases, collaborate across teams, and ensure reproducible, scalable data science with high‑quality delivery and stakeholder communication.