Senior Data Scientist – SAP (Dubai)

About the role

SAP is seeking a Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist based in Dubai to deliver innovative solutions to business challenges using data science and artificial intelligence.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new data science solutions such as exploratory analyses, prediction, classification, clustering, recommendations, and anomaly detection.
• Build machine‑learning models using frameworks like Scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and XGBoost.
• Construct Generative AI solutions with large language models, retrieval‑augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, and AI orchestration platforms.
• Apply predictive analytics in enterprise scenarios and define metrics to evaluate model performance.
• Collaborate with client teams, AI engineers, data engineers, product managers, and UX designers to deliver effective AI solutions.

Required profile

• Excellent data‑science, machine‑learning and applied AI skills with strong Python and SQL expertise.
• Proven experience building predictive models, recommendation engines, forecasting, anomaly detection and classification models.
• Hands‑on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases and AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI and AutoGen.
• Experience delivering AI solutions through cloud‑native and MLOps strategies.
• Strong communication, teamwork and problem‑solving abilities in customer‑facing roles.

Required skills

• Python
• SQL
• Scikit‑learn
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• XGBoost
• Large language models (LLMs)
• Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
• Embeddings
• Vector databases
• LangGraph
• LangChain
• CrewAI
• AutoGen
• Cloud‑native architectures
• MLOps