Job description

The Data Science Expert role within SAP Software-Design and Development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates focuses on transforming data into business decisions by identifying high-value business problems, framing analytical approaches, and delivering models and insights that improve customer outcomes and product performance. The role spans exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, experimentation, forecasting, segmentation, anomaly detection, causal analysis, and machine learning while collaborating closely with product, engineering, sales, operations, and finance stakeholders. The position requires defining success metrics, quantifying business impact, translating findings into actionable business recommendations, and influencing roadmap decisions using evidence-based insights. The role also contributes to AI-driven analytics using NLP, embeddings, and LLM-assisted workflows for summarization, classification, knowledge extraction, and decision support. The Data Science Expert leverages Python and SQL for data extraction, statistical analysis, feature engineering, model development, and analytical automation while applying hypothesis testing, experiment design, A/B testing, regression analysis, causal inference, and uncertainty interpretation. Responsibilities include implementing machine learning techniques such as classification, forecasting, clustering, recommendation systems, anomaly detection, and propensity modeling. The role requires building dashboards, visualizations, and executive-level data narratives, applying feature selection, model validation, error analysis, bias identification, and balancing trade-offs between accuracy and usability. The position also involves working with modern analytics platforms including notebooks, BI tools, cloud data warehouses, Apache Spark, and large-scale data processing environments while maintaining strong data quality, lineage, and governance standards. The role supports customers across Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates within an AI and industry expert team, delivering scalable, customer-centric AI solutions, influencing strategy, and enabling measurable business outcomes.