Junior Data Scientist - Banking & Financial Services

About the role

Synechron, a global technology consulting firm focused on digital transformation, AI, cloud, cybersecurity and data engineering, is hiring a Junior Data Scientist in Abu Dhabi. The role sits within the banking and financial services domain and is a full-time position.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field; Master's preferred.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in data science, machine learning, predictive analytics and AI solution development.
• Proven experience deploying and managing machine learning models in production, and with MLOps practices.

Required skills

• Strong Python, including Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Dataiku for data preparation, feature engineering, model development, deployment, automation and monitoring.
• Azure Databricks, PySpark, MLflow and large-scale distributed data processing.
• Deep SQL skills on large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Machine learning, statistical modeling, feature engineering, model validation, hyperparameter optimization and model explainability.
• Regression, classification, clustering, forecasting, recommendation, customer segmentation, risk and fraud detection models.
• NLP, text analytics, sentiment analysis and generative AI.
• MLOps: CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, experiment tracking, model registry, automated retraining, drift detection, model monitoring and governance.