Retail Banking Data Scientist—Marketing & Credit Analytics

NeoStats; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo Stats is seeking experienced Data Scientists to work on advanced analytics for UAE retail banking clients. The role focuses on building, validating and implementing ML models to support customer growth, credit decisions, risk management and portfolio performance.

Mandatory experience in Retail Banking Analytics with strong Python and SQL skills. Willingness to work from client locations in the UAE is required. Dubai-based candidates preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Data Science experience.
• Mandatory experience in Retail Banking Analytics.
• Strong experience in Marketing Analytics or Credit Analytics.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with large and complex banking datasets.
• Ability to explain model findings to clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build, validate, optimize and monitor ML models for retail banking use cases.
• Develop Marketing Analytics solutions including segmentation, propensity modelling, churn prediction, and CLV.
• Develop Credit Analytics solutions including application scoring and risk analysis.
• Perform data exploration, feature engineering, model selection, tuning and validation.
• Collaborate with business, risk, technology and data teams; present findings to client stakeholders.

Skills

Marketing Analytics

Credit Analytics

Data Science

Python

SQL

Big data

Client-facing

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or master's in data science

Statistics or Mathematics

Tools

Databricks

Dataiku

Azure

Job description

Neo Stats is seeking experienced Data Scientists to work on advanced analytics for UAE retail banking clients. The role focuses on building, validating and implementing ML models to support customer growth, credit decisions, risk management and portfolio performance.

Mandatory experience in Retail Banking Analytics with strong Python and SQL skills. Willingness to work from client locations in the UAE is required. Dubai-based candidates preferred.