JOB TITLE: Data Scientist
TERM: 12 months
CLIENT LOCATION: Jeddah Head Office AlBaghdadiyah AlGharbiyah Jeddah 22233 Saudi Arabia
DIVISION: Banking & Technology
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: 10years in a similar role ideally with financial services
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS: Python R SAS programming language (SAS 9.4
PURPOSE OF JOB:
Role of data scientist
TASKS
Core Responsibilities and Accountabilities
a. Nontechnical
- Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to client stakeholders
- Experience in Financial Services Banking & card payments Industry is a plus
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to understand business requirements
- Document all steps in the development process
b. Technical
- Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
- Highly Proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4
- Proficient is other Data Science programming languages (e.g. Python R)
- Develop test implement and maintain predictive models
- Segmentation customer lifetime value
- Identify opportunities to innovatively use data/ extract insights from complex data sets
c. Cultural Fit
- Owning the outcome (ownership)
- Being driven/passionate in analytics
- Problem solving mindset challenging the status quo
- Selforganizing independent and takes ownership of each task
- Meticulous to detail
- Thrive under pressure
KPIs:
- Time to deployment & value identified/realized/recommended from different use cases.
- Model accuracy (e.g. RMSE MAE for regression tasks)
- Number of business problems addressed
- Responsiveness to business questions/problems/requests
- Number of departments/business users supported/adopted the solution
- Stakeholder Satisfaction: The level of satisfaction of stakeholders with the reports and insights provided.
- Collaboration Effectiveness: The effectiveness of collaboration with crossfunctional teams measured through the quality of insights extracted.
- Data Security Compliance: Compliance with data security protocols and regulations
Knowledge and Experience
- 10years in a similar role ideally with financial services
SKILLS
- Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
- Highly Proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4
- Proficient is other Data Science programming languages (e.g. Python R)
- Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to senior stakeholders (non technical