Head of Advanced Analytics

Posted 11 February 2022
Salary 60-80k AED p/m & benefits
LocationDubai
Job type Permanent
Discipline Data & Analytics

Job description

We’re currently partnered with a leading consultancy that is growing its team in Dubai. They’re currently searching for a Head of Advanced Analytics – someone who will be responsible for developing and delivering an advanced analytics capability to clients.  

Responsibilities:

- Lead & grow a team of data strategists, architects, analysts & ML/AI experts to build the advanced analytics & AI business
- Manage e2e lifecycle of designing models, working with engineers for implementation, to maintenance & enforcement
- Build, validate, test & deploy ML or other data science models to predict & influence customer behavior
- Explore & extract insights from massive data sets of behavioural, economic and extraction of 3rd part data, to power customer models that can make decisions instantly & accurately

Key Skills:

- Strong understanding & implementation experience of predictive modelling algorithms
- Solid experience managing data environments & leading a team to build & shape a set of data streams
- Experience collaborating with other teams to deliver impact solutions
- Experience in developing creative algorithms to deliver impact solutions

Qualifications & Experience:

- Minimum 15+ years of experience
- 10+ years leading AA/AI teams
- Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degrees a plus
- Agile experience
- Digital transformation experience
- Experience using MySQL/R/Python/Java/c++/Sas