Data Scientist - Middle East

About the role

Sia, a global management consulting firm, is looking for a Data Scientist to join its Data & AI team in the Middle East, based in the UAE (Dubai or Abu Dhabi). The Data Scientist builds and productionizes data science and machine learning solutions for clients, turning client data into insight and working solutions that deliver measurable business value.

Key responsibilities

• Work with client leaders, engineers and analysts to define data needs, business objectives and success measures
• Find, collect, prepare and explore structured and unstructured data sources
• Build, evaluate and productionize predictive models and machine learning algorithms, including NLP and generative AI use cases
• Build and manage data pipelines and the surrounding data ecosystem to support models in production
• Create dashboards and visualizations that present insights clearly
• Present findings and recommendations to client stakeholders, including non-technical audiences
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deploy solutions on cloud environments
• Support business development by contributing to opportunity identification, proposals and client presentations
• Contribute to Sia's internal accelerators and data science assets

Required profile

• Master's degree in a quantitative field (Data Science, Computer Science, AI, Statistics or Engineering)
• 4 to 6 years' experience as a data scientist or in a comparable applied machine learning role
• Demonstrable experience taking models from exploration to production
• Experience with data acquisition, exploration, modelling and evaluation on large structured and unstructured datasets
• Experience presenting results to client stakeholders, with strong problem-solving and business acumen
• Professional proficiency in English is a must; Arabic is a plus

Required skills

• Strong Python and SQL, with a solid understanding of machine learning and statistical techniques
• Experience with data pipelines and data ecosystem management
• Data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI or similar
• Certification in AI/ML, data science or a cloud platform is a plus

What we offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package benchmarked against the market
• Tailored career advocacy program with mentors
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities