# Lead Data Scientist

**Company:** [Envision Employment Solutions](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/ojATcwx3VkivFzs5Nma6Ka.md)
**Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Data

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## Description

**Envision Employment Solutions** is currently hiring a **Lead Data Scientist** for one of our partners, a global leader in IT Services and IT Consulting.

**Job Summary:**

We are seeking a visionary AI leader to drive enterprise-scale AI strategy, architecture, and delivery. This role requires deep expertise in large language models (LLMs), AI governance, and production-grade ML platforms, combined with strong leadership and executive communication capabilities.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience building and scaling enterprise AI ecosystems and leading multidisciplinary teams across complex environments.

**Responsibilities:**

**Strategic AI Leadership**

-   Define and drive AI roadmaps aligned with corporate strategy
-   Oversee the full model lifecycle from research and experimentation to production deployment
-   Ensure measurable ROI and business impact from AI initiatives

**LLM & NLP Architecture (Enterprise Level)**

-   Design LLM ecosystems including RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, and fine-tuning strategies
-   Lead domain-specific model fine-tuning and pretraining using proprietary datasets
-   Integrate platforms such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, and Google Vertex AI
-   Define governance, compliance, and security frameworks for LLM deployments
-   Establish evaluation standards for hallucination rate, factual accuracy, bias, and toxicity

**Infrastructure & Governance**

-   Own data governance policies and feature store strategy
-   Lead model observability, monitoring, and drift management frameworks
-   Partner with DevOps and Security to ensure scalability, resilience, and compliance

**Team & Stakeholder Leadership**

-   Build and lead multidisciplinary AI teams including Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Data Engineers
-   Mentor senior scientists and define research best practices
-   Communicate directly with executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders
-   Evaluate AI vendors and technology partnerships

## Requirements

**Qualifications:**

-   Master’s or PhD in **AI, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, or Applied Math or a related field**
-   Minimum 7 years of overall professional experience
-   At least 2+ years in AI/ML leadership roles

-   Proven ability to build and scale **enterprise-level AI/LLM platforms**.

**Leadership Competencies**

-   Visionary mindset driving innovation across business units.
-   Excellent executive communication and influence skills.
-   Focused on measurable ROI, scalability, and ethical AI.
-   Mentors senior scientists, defining best practices and research direction.

## Benefits

**Benefits & Work Setup**

-   Basic salary 
-   Family Medical Insurance
-   Round-trip family flight tickets once per year
-   Visa coverage
-   **Location:** Dubai 
-   **Work Model:** Hybrid – 2 days in the office and 3 days remote. If assigned to a project, you may be required to work from the client’s premises on a daily basis, depending on the project requirements.
-   **Working Hours:** 9 AM to 6 PM 
-   **Days Off:** Saturdays and Sundays