Junior Data Scientist (Emiratisation)

Role Purpose:

Support delivery of ML \+ GenAI (LLM) use cases in a regulated banking environment, with primary focus on model documentation, AI governance, and Model Risk Management (MRM) readiness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with large and complex data sets to solve challenging business problems
• Support development and controlled updates of ML/GenAI components mainly to ensure reproducibility, versioning, and governed release.
• Document evaluation results for ML/LLM components (test cases, thresholds, failure modes, mitigations) to enable governance review and validation readiness.
• Produce and maintain audit-ready model documentation (purpose, scope, data lineage/governance, methodology, assumptions, limitations, evaluation evidence, monitoring plan, change log).
• Support MRM governance deliverables: Model Charter inputs, Model Inventory updates, and AI risk assessment/tiering evidence packs (including Human-in-the-Loop aspects where required).
• Document evaluation results for ML/LLM components (test cases, thresholds, failure modes, mitigations) to enable governance review and validation readiness.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• Experience: 0-3 years (Data Science AI/ML; banking preferred)
• Python (pandas/NumPy/scikit-learn) and SQL; strong data preparation \+ EDA foundations.
• Solid understanding of ML fundamentals and model evaluation concepts.
• Working knowledge of GenAI/LLM basics (prompting/RAG concepts) and ability to document risks/controls clearly.
• Demonstrated exposure to model documentation / governance / MRM in a regulated or enterprise setting (charter, inventory, risk assessment, monitoring documentation).
• Strong written communication: ability to turn technical work into crisp, structured documentation
• Experience deploying models on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or similar (e.g., Sagemaker, Vertex AI)
• Educational qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science / Statistics or related field.