Senior Data Scientist - GenAI & Insights Leader

Fuku; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuku in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (Advanced Insights) to transform operational data into actionable insights. You will own end-to-end delivery from framing to dashboarding and GenAI-enabled solutions, built on governed enterprise data.

You will partner with stakeholders, design data models and metrics, and mentor analysts while ensuring reliable, adoptable results across the business. This role is based in Kuala Lumpur and offers impactful analytics leadership.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of experience in data analytics, BI, data science, data engineering, or related roles with end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analyses and decisions.
• SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar).
• Python for data manipulation and analysis.
• Dashboarding and data storytelling fundamentals (tool-agnostic).
• Production-ready experience with RAG using a vector database, LLM-based structured extraction into JSON/schemas, or API-driven integration.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; able to deliver iteratively in time-boxed environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities where analytics and GenAI can improve decision-making and process performance.
• Translate business needs into analytical questions, KPI definitions, reporting requirements, and GenAI user stories.
• Manage a portfolio of deliverables with clear success measures and measurable outcomes.
• Extract, clean, transform, and integrate data from multiple systems to produce trusted analytics datasets.
• Design and maintain analytics data models (e.g., star schema) to support reporting and data retrieval.
• Define auditable metric logic and ensure data quality and traceability of key measures.
• Design and develop operational dashboards and reports that clearly communicate performance, trends, and exceptions.
• Present insights in business language with clear implications and actions.
• Iterate with users to improve usability and adoption of dashboards and reports.
• Design and implement GenAI workflows, including RAG pipelines and document extraction; build lightweight API services for integration.
• Mentor junior analysts on problem framing, SQL, data modeling, and dashboard best practices; promote KPI templates and standards.

Skills

SQL

Relational databases

Python

Dashboarding & storytelling

RAG

LLM structured extraction

LLM API integration

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Problem framing & analytics

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Math / Statistics / Engineering

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

FastAPI

Flask

AWS Bedrock

Vector stores (FAISS/Qdrant/Milvus/Pinecone)

PDF/XML/HTML parsing

Job description

Fuku in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (Advanced Insights) to transform operational data into actionable insights. You will own end-to-end delivery from framing to dashboarding and GenAI-enabled solutions, built on governed enterprise data.

You will partner with stakeholders, design data models and metrics, and mentor analysts while ensuring reliable, adoptable results across the business. This role is based in Kuala Lumpur and offers impactful analytics leadership.