Senior Data Scientist: AI/ML for Banking & Real-Time Insights

Rakbank; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakbank in Dubai is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to lead AI/ML initiatives across customer engagement, marketing, retention, risk and product analytics. You will translate business problems into analytical use-cases, build end-to-end models, and deploy them in batch and real-time environments.

You will collaborate with data engineers and business analysts, ensure reproducible workflows, and present insights to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in analytics, data science or a similar function.
• 3-4 years of experience in banking analytics.
• Proficient in Python and SQL.
• Experience deploying end-to-end ML models.
• Expertise in 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.
• Develop, test and deploy ML models in batch and real-time environments.
• Maintain reproducible coding standards and clear documentation.
• Communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Python

SQL

AWS

Azure

APIs

SAS

Job description

Rakbank in Dubai is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to lead AI/ML initiatives across customer engagement, marketing, retention, risk and product analytics. You will translate business problems into analytical use-cases, build end-to-end models, and deploy them in batch and real-time environments.

You will collaborate with data engineers and business analysts, ensure reproducible workflows, and present insights to stakeholders.