Job Description

Data Scientist - Al-Futtaim Group - Dubai, UAE
Position Overview
The Data Scientist role in Dubai, UAE focuses on designing, building, and productionizing advanced analytics and GenAI-powered solutions to enhance enterprise-wide insights, recommendations, and decision making. This role partners with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and governed data science and GenAI solutions that create measurable business impact across Al-Futtaim Group.
Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Information Services
Function: R and D-Science
Salary: 28000-36000 monthly (Market estimated)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Key Responsibilities

• Translate complex business problems into data science, statistical, and machine learning solutions with clear success metrics.
• Perform data exploration, feature engineering, model development, and evaluation on large-scale structured and semi-structured datasets.
• Build predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive models with a focus on robustness, interpretability, and alignment to business objectives.
• Partner with business, product, and analytics teams to validate assumptions and deliver actionable insights.
• Apply GenAI techniques including LLM-based summarization, classification, insight generation, and decision support.
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions grounded in enterprise data and analytical outputs.
• Collaborate on GenAI-enabled analytical applications ensuring accuracy, relevance, and explainability.
• Productionize models using enterprise MLOps and LLMOps practices including versioning, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Build scalable and secure analytical pipelines in collaboration with data engineering and cloud teams.
• Monitor model performance, data drift, and GenAI output quality, driving continuous improvement.
• Define and track performance metrics including accuracy, bias, latency, stability, and business impact.
• Run experiments and controlled rollouts to optimize models, prompts, and retrieval strategies.

Ideal Profile

• Business or technical degree in data science, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in data science or AI engineering delivering production-grade machine learning solutions.
• 6+ years of experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, and performance optimization.
• 4+ years of experience with NLP or language-based systems including text classification and semantic modeling.
• 2+ years of experience delivering GenAI or conversational AI solutions in production environments.

Skills Set

• Applied statistics and machine learning
• Python, SQL, Spark, and large-scale data processing
• Databricks ecosystem for analytics and GenAI deployment
• MLOps and LLMOps practices
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation design
• Model governance, security, and responsible AI
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication

Why Join Us

• Work on enterprise-scale analytics and GenAI initiatives with real business impact.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams across a diversified group.
• Build future-ready AI capabilities within a structured, governed, and secure environment.
• Access long-term growth opportunities within a technology-driven organization.

About the Company
Al-Futtaim Group is one of the Middle East's most diversified privately held organizations, headquartered in Dubai. Operating across automotive, retail, real estate, financial services, and healthcare, the group employs more than 35000 people across over 20 countries. Through continued investment in advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms, Al-Futtaim is enabling smarter decision making and sustainable growth across its enterprise operations.
Job Title Data Scientist - Al-Futtaim Group - Dubai, UAE
Data Scientist - Al-Futtaim Group - Dubai, UAE
Position Overview
The Data Scientist role in Dubai, UAE focuses on designing, building, and productionizing advanced analytics and GenAI-powered solutions to enhance enterprise-wide insights, recommendations, and decision making. This role partners with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and governed data science and GenAI solutions that create measurable business impact across Al-Futtaim Group.
Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Information Services
Function: R and D-Science
Salary: 28000-36000 monthly (Market estimated)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Key Responsibilities

• Translate complex business problems into data science, statistical, and machine learning solutions with clear success metrics.
• Perform data exploration, feature engineering, model development, and evaluation on large-scale structured and semi-structured datasets.
• Build predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive models with a focus on robustness, interpretability, and alignment to business objectives.
• Partner with business, product, and analytics teams to validate assumptions and deliver actionable insights.
• Apply GenAI techniques including LLM-based summarization, classification, insight generation, and decision support.
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions grounded in enterprise data and analytical outputs.
• Collaborate on GenAI-enabled analytical applications ensuring accuracy, relevance, and explainability.
• Productionize models using enterprise MLOps and LLMOps practices including versioning, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Build scalable and secure analytical pipelines in collaboration with data engineering and cloud teams.
• Monitor model performance, data drift, and GenAI output quality, driving continuous improvement.
• Define and track performance metrics including accuracy, bias, latency, stability, and business impact.
• Run experiments and controlled rollouts to optimize models, prompts, and retrieval strategies.

Ideal Profile

• Business or technical degree in data science, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in data science or AI engineering delivering production-grade machine learning solutions.
• 6+ years of experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, and performance optimization.
• 4+ years of experience with NLP or language-based systems including text classification and semantic modeling.
• 2+ years of experience delivering GenAI or conversational AI solutions in production environments.

Skills Set

• Applied statistics and machine learning
• Python, SQL, Spark, and large-scale data processing
• Databricks ecosystem for analytics and GenAI deployment
• MLOps and LLMOps practices
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation design
• Model governance, security, and responsible AI
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication

Why Join Us

• Work on enterprise-scale analytics and GenAI initiatives with real business impact.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams across a diversified group.
• Build future-ready AI capabilities within a structured, governed, and secure environment.
• Access long-term growth opportunities within a technology-driven organization.

About the Company
Al-Futtaim Group is one of the Middle East's most diversified privately held organizations, headquartered in Dubai. Operating across automotive, retail, real estate, financial services, and healthcare, the group employs more than 35000 people across over 20 countries. Through continued investment in advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms, Al-Futtaim is enabling smarter decision making and sustainable growth across its enterprise operations.
Post Details
Job Start Date
Salary from 28000.00
Salary to 36000.00
Number of Vacancies 1
Location -
Location City Dubai
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