Emirates NBD
Lead – Advanced Analytics Strategy & Development
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 07/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
21/01/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Job description
The Lead – Advanced Analytics Strategy & Development role sits within Emirates NBD’s Advanced Analytics Center of Excellence (AA CoE), the Group’s hub for advanced analytics and AI capabilities supporting customer experience enhancement, operational optimization, and strategic decision-making across business and support functions. The role operates within the Analytics Product Office, which is responsible for leveraging Advanced Analytics, AI, and GenAI capabilities to design, build, integrate, and scale analytics solutions across the bank through established digital and platform delivery tribes. The Product Office collaborates closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Domain Specialists, and business stakeholders to ideate, shape, and deliver analytics initiatives end to end, ensuring seamless transition from concept to scalable, production-ready solutions aligned with Emirates NBD Group Strategic Priorities. The role supports the development of the AA CoE strategy and owns selected elements of the AI agenda across the Group, requiring deep understanding of banking business processes, opportunity identification, AI-driven solution shaping, roadmap development, lifecycle oversight post-rollout, adoption enablement, and value realization tracking. The role also contributes to enterprise AI program diagnostics, roadmap development, governance, reporting, stakeholder alignment, and innovation through fintech partnerships, while embedding analytics into business-as-usual processes and driving sustained business impact across the bank.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Assist in formulating the overall Advanced Analytics and AI strategy in alignment with the data strategy roadmap and DSP integration.
- Support the development and execution of the AA CoE strategy to enable delivery of cutting-edge analytics and AI solutions across Emirates NBD businesses.
- Drive alignment of CoE strategy with key stakeholders through analysis of business metrics, market trends, and industry best practices.
- Ensure continuous alignment of analytics initiatives with related CoE chapters, including Data Strategy and DSP.
- Support Digital and Fintech partnership teams in scouting and evaluating fintechs relevant to current and planned advanced analytics initiatives.
- Partner with business stakeholders to conceptualize, prioritize, and design analytics and AI use cases, including requirements gathering, pilot execution, and roadmap creation.
- Identify and drive cross-functional and cross-segment analytics opportunities in collaboration with internal CoE teams and business units.
- Support end-to-end delivery of analytics use cases from conception and MVP through scale-up and production with digital and platform delivery tribes.
- Define and guide the selection of appropriate traditional advanced analytics, AI, and GenAI technology stacks to deliver enterprise-scale machine learning solutions.
- Track and assess outcomes, impact, and value realization across the analytics use-case lifecycle.
- Enable adoption and change management by embedding analytics solutions into business-as-usual processes and addressing integration challenges.
- Conduct diagnostics to assess existing AI programs across the bank and consolidate initiatives with sponsor functions and delivery teams.
- Develop strategic AI roadmaps to scale priority initiatives aligned with business feedback and annual priorities.
- Coordinate planning, execution, and delivery of AI initiatives across CoE and non-CoE teams.
- Identify and manage risks and dependencies while preparing senior management reporting on AI program progress and outcomes.
- Coordinate program-level reporting and governance across analytics and AI initiatives for AA CoE, including inputs for Investor Relations and EXCO committees.
Experience & skills
- Hold a university degree with an MBA qualification.
- Demonstrate 6 to 9 years of professional experience, preferably in consulting or BFSI environments.
- Show experience working across multiple projects as a consultant or analyst.
- Possess experience working with high-performing BFSI teams in strategy, data governance, or analytics domains.
- Have experience operating in agile working environments.
- Demonstrate experience developing strategies for advanced analytics units or big data-focused teams.
- Exhibit strong knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning developments within the banking context.