Job description

The Senior Associate – Data Scientist role at Aldar Corporate within the Group Digital Futures function is responsible for designing, building, and productionizing advanced analytics and AI solutions that deliver measurable business value. The role focuses on translating complex business challenges into structured data science problems by defining hypotheses, success metrics, and validation methodologies. It involves working with structured and unstructured datasets using Python and SQL to prepare high-quality data for machine learning model development. The role includes designing, training, evaluating, and optimizing machine learning models using techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, NLP, and forecasting. The candidate will collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and data teams to deploy models into production using CI/CD pipelines and scalable ML frameworks. The role also requires implementing model explainability techniques such as SHAP and LIME to ensure transparency, fairness, and interpretability. Additionally, the Senior Associate supports AI governance and Model Risk Management (MRM) processes to ensure compliance and responsible AI usage. The position includes conducting A/B testing and controlled experiments to validate model performance and business impact. The role involves continuous monitoring of deployed models, ensuring relevance and alignment with business objectives, and working with stakeholders to translate insights into actionable decisions. Strong communication skills are required to present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences in a clear and impactful manner.