Principal Specialist, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

Maaden; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden seeks a senior data science leader to drive advanced analytics and AI capabilities across enterprise functions. You will translate business problems into scalable ML solutions and decision intelligence products, leveraging trusted data and governance to unlock value.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, data platform teams, and business stakeholders to embed analytics into autonomous workflows, ensuring transparency and model monitoring throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, ML, or data product development.
• Experience with agentic AI, generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into data science problem statements and measurable outcomes.
• Design and deliver predictive, prescriptive, diagnostic analytics to support decision-making.
• Develop ML models, statistical analyses, simulations, and advanced analytics products.
• Ensure outputs are interpretable, actionable, and aligned with governance and business value.
• Define data, model, and workflow requirements for agentic AI use cases.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to embed analytics into autonomous workflows.
• Define evaluation approaches for AI-enabled insights and monitor performance and impact.
• Promote responsible AI with transparency, explainability, and governance controls.
• Create reusable analytics assets and data products for scale across domains.

Skills

Advanced data science

Machine learning

Statistical modeling

Optimization

Simulation

Predictive analytics

Agentic AI

Generative AI

MLOps

Responsible AI

Explainability

Governance

Data product thinking

Stakeholder advisory

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Python

SQL

Analytics platforms

Notebooks

Visualization tools

Cloud data platforms

MLOps practices

Job description

Job Description

Why This Role Matters

This role leads advanced data science and analytics initiatives within the Agentic AI department, translating business problems into scalable analytical solutions, AI-enabled insights, predictive models, and decision intelligence products. It helps build enterprise capabilities that use trusted data, machine learning, automation, and agentic AI concepts to improve productivity, operational performance, and business decision-making.

What You Will Deliver

Lead Data Science and Analytics Solutions

Translate business priorities, operational challenges, and use cases into clear data science problem statements, analytical approaches, and measurable outcomes.

Design and deliver predictive, prescriptive, diagnostic, and exploratory analytics solutions that support decision-making across business and operational domains.

Develop machine learning models, statistical analyses, simulations, optimization approaches, and advanced analytics products using enterprise data assets.

Ensure analytical outputs are interpretable, actionable, repeatable, and aligned with business value, adoption needs, and governance requirements.

Enable Agentic AI and Intelligent Analytics

Support the development of agentic AI use cases by defining data, model, workflow, evaluation, and decision-support requirements.

Collaborate with AI engineers, platform teams, data engineers, and business stakeholders to embed analytics and machine learning into autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows.

Define evaluation approaches for AI-enabled insights, model performance, business impact, human oversight, and continuous improvement.

Promote responsible use of agentic AI by ensuring transparency, explainability, control, auditability, and fit-for-purpose model deployment.

Advance Data Products and Decision Intelligence

Create reusable analytical assets, data science patterns, feature logic, model components, and decision intelligence products that can scale across business domains.

Partner with data platform, governance, and architecture teams to ensure data products are trusted, well‑documented, reusable, and operationally maintainable.

Integrate analytics into dashboards, workflows, applications, copilots, and AI agents where decision support can improve speed, quality, and productivity.

Maintain clear documentation covering assumptions, data sources, model logic, limitations, controls, and expected business usage.

Ensure Model Quality, Governance and Value Realization

Apply appropriate data science governance practices for model validation, performance monitoring, bias checks, versioning, deployment readiness, and lifecycle management.

Define success measures, impact metrics, adoption criteria, and benefit tracking approaches for analytics and AI-enabled solutions.

Monitor solution performance after deployment and recommend improvements based on usage, feedback, model drift, data quality, and business impact.

Ensure data science and analytics solutions remain compliant with data governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and responsible AI expectations.

Provide Technical Leadership and Stakeholder Advisory

Provide expert guidance to analysts, data scientists, engineers, and business teams on analytical methods, model design, evaluation, and adoption.

Advise stakeholders on what analytics or AI can realistically solve, required data readiness, implementation complexity, and expected value.

Review analytical designs, model outputs, assumptions, and recommendations to ensure technical quality and business relevance.

Communicate insights, risks, limitations, and recommended actions clearly to technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

Business problems are translated into clear data science use cases, analytical approaches, and measurable value outcomes.

Predictive, prescriptive, and decision intelligence solutions are delivered with strong technical quality and practical business relevance.

Agentic AI use cases are supported with trusted data, robust models, evaluation methods, controls, and human oversight where required.

Analytics and AI products are reusable, documented, governed, monitored, and aligned with responsible AI expectations.

Stakeholders receive clear insights, recommendations, and decision support that improve productivity, performance, and adoption.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Master’s Degree is preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, machine learning, AI solution delivery, decision intelligence, or data product development.
• Strong experience translating business requirements into analytical solutions, developing models, evaluating performance, and deploying analytics into operational workflows.
• Experience with agentic AI, generative AI, MLOps, responsible AI, cloud data platforms, or enterprise analytics environments is preferred.

Skills That Matter

• Advanced data science, machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, simulation, and predictive analytics
• Agentic AI concepts, generative AI, decision intelligence, AI workflow design, and model evaluation
• Python, SQL, analytics platforms, notebooks, visualization tools, cloud data platforms, and MLOps practices
• Data preparation, feature engineering, model validation, performance monitoring, drift detection, and lifecycle management
• Responsible AI, explainability, transparency, bias awareness, human oversight, and governance controls
• Data product thinking, reusable analytical assets, documentation, scalability, and operationalization
• Business problem framing, stakeholder advisory, insight storytelling, and value realization tracking
• Ability to coach teams, review analytical work, manage ambiguity, and communicate with technical and executive audiences