Data Scientist

FAB, the UAE's largest bank and one of the world's most secure financial institutions, is dedicated to creating value for its employees, customers, shareholders, and communities. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business segments within PBG to leverage analytics capabilities and turn analytic insights into recommendations for acquisition, cross-sell, up-sell, retention, and win back.
• Apply advanced statistical and predictive modelling techniques to build, maintain, and improve multiple decision systems; design experiments and test business hypotheses.
• Identify relevant internal and external data sources for analytics opportunities, utilizing new data collection processes including geo-location data and unstructured sources such as emails, log files, and social media.
• Develop innovative approaches to solve business problems using Analytics and communicate results and methodologies.
• Provide ongoing tracking and monitoring of performance of decision systems and statistical models built by the data science unit.

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Sciences, Maths, Operations Research, or related fields.
• Additional degree or certifications in data science/Analytics preferred.

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a large Analytics or BI function within a financial services organization with relevant quantitative and qualitative research and analytics experience.
• Understanding of a wide variety of analytical processes.

Technical Skills:

• SAS (Base SAS, EMiner, EG)
• Python
• Databricks and Dataiku platform knowledge is a plus
• Statistical modelling, Machine Learning, and AI (Pattern recognition, Natural language processing)
• Data Visualization (Power BI)
• Deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow/pytorch/Maxnet)

Location:
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates