Principal Data Scientist - AI, MLOps & GenAI Lead

RAKBANK; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Dubai is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to develop and deploy advanced propensity models, lead a team of data scientists, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role demands expertise in Python and cloud platforms along with a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and over 10 years of experience. Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities are offered as part of a performance-driven culture.

Benefits

Competitive and performance-linked compensation

Diverse workforce and inclusive culture

Career development and growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in a senior data scientist position.
• Strong analytics experience in the bank sector is an advantage.
• Modelling experience including knowledge of Cloud, ML and GenAI.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy propensity models for cross-sell and upsell.
• Set up model monitoring, drift detection, and alerting systems.
• Deploy models to production via APIs or streaming systems.

Skills

Expert-level coding in Python

Advanced experience with propensity models

Strong SQL skills

Experience with cloud platforms

Ability to lead senior data scientists

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Econometrics, Actuarial Science, Maths/Statistics, Computer Science

Tools

Airflow

MLflow

Kubeflow

Spark

AWS

Job description

A leading financial institution in Dubai is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to develop and deploy advanced propensity models, lead a team of data scientists, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role demands expertise in Python and cloud platforms along with a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and over 10 years of experience. Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities are offered as part of a performance-driven culture.