Senior AI Data Scientist - Dubai FinTech ML Leader

Nicfurniture; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Network International is seeking an experienced AI Data Scientist (Senior Manager) in Dubai to translate business requirements into data and modelling solutions. You will develop, evaluate and improve ML and statistical models, ensuring accuracy, robustness and explainability aligned with business outcomes.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, business teams and risk/compliance functions to prepare data, benchmark options and support models through deployment and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, computer science, statistics, mathematics or related quantitative discipline.
• Master’s degree or advanced qualification in a relevant quantitative/technical field is advantageous.
• Hands-on experience in data science, machine learning, predictive modelling or related role.
• Strong programming skills in Python, R, SQL or other relevant data science technologies.
• Experience using ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost; data exploration and feature engineering.
• Experience with cloud data/AI platforms, notebooks, version control and data pipelines; familiarity with MLOps.
• Experience in financial services, fintech, payments, risk, or data-driven environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements and approved designs into data, feature, analytical and modelling requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define target variables, outcomes and evaluation criteria.
• Explore, clean and curate structured and unstructured data for AI use cases.
• Design and engineer features and datasets for model development and validation.
• Build, train, tune and evaluate ML/statistical models with appropriate techniques.
• Benchmark models against baselines and third-party solutions.
• Define training/validation/testing methodologies and performance thresholds.
• Support deployment, monitoring, drift detection and retraining of models.
• Develop reusable data pipelines and modelling components for faster delivery.
• Provide updates and insights on model performance, data readiness and risks.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

XGBoost

MLOps

Data exploration

Model evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science / related field

Master's degree advantageous

Tools

Python

R

SQL

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Job description

Network International is seeking an experienced AI Data Scientist (Senior Manager) in Dubai to translate business requirements into data and modelling solutions. You will develop, evaluate and improve ML and statistical models, ensuring accuracy, robustness and explainability aligned with business outcomes.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, business teams and risk/compliance functions to prepare data, benchmark options and support models through deployment and monitoring.