Our client, a Global Paymetns Firm is currently carrying out a project for a leading bank in Saudi Arabia. To support with this, our client is looking to oboard a Data Scientist to join their team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Non-technical 

• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to client stakeholders 
• Experience in Financial Services, Banking & card payments Industry is a plus 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements 
• Document all steps in the development process 

Technical

• Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
• Highly Proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4) 
• Proficient in 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 

Cultural Fit 

• Owning the outcome (ownership) 
• Being driven/passionate in analytics 
• Problem solving mindset, challenging the status quo
• Self-organizing, 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 cross-functional 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 in other Data Science programming languages (e.g. Python, R)
• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to senior stakeholders (non-technical) 

Mandatory Requirement:

• Python, R, SAS programming language (SAS 9.4) 

This is a 12 months contractual role based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.