Lead Data Scientist

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🌐 United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt – Remote

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote 🇪🇬 Egypt – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Digital Zone

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🛍️ eCommerce

💳 Fintech

🎮 Gaming

eCommerce • Fintech • Gaming

Digital Zone is a pioneering company founded in 2020 in Iraq, providing a comprehensive platform for digital products. It specializes in facilitating access to vouchers, tickets, and subscriptions, serving millions of transactions monthly through strategic partnerships, like the one with Qi Card, a leading payment card market player. Digital Zone offers a user-friendly experience, enabling secure and direct payments for digital goods. Its diverse portfolio includes mobile top-up cards, gaming cards, and entertainment access, making it a key player in the financial technology and e-commerce spaces. With expansion into entertainment, cultural tourism, and sporting events, Digital Zone is at the forefront of Iraq's digital transformation, witnessed through their innovative solutions such as the 'Ticket Zone' platform for events and collaborations with telecommunications companies for seamless service delivery. The platform is recognized for its successful integration via APIs, enabling app developers to become digital goods resellers, while maintaining a broad catalog and competitive prices.

📋 Description

• Build the data science function from one person to a team, including its charter, hiring, and modelling standards • Own fraud detection as a product, including transaction and payment risk scoring, chargeback and refund abuse, account takeover, promo abuse, and agent and merchant anomaly detection • Set fraud thresholds with fraud and operations teams and defend the loss-versus-friction tradeoff • Own identity management modelling, including identity resolution, record linkage, deduplication, match confidence, profile completeness scoring, and unified customer profiles • Drive next-best-action and segmentation for personalised customer communication • Deploy and maintain models in production with cloud and MLOps teams, including monitoring, drift detection, retraining, rollback, and measurable business outcomes • Own demand and stock forecasting, predictive budget, category and SKU-level targets, churn, and lifetime value models • Own experiment design across product and marketing, including hypotheses, minimum detectable effects, decision rules, and readouts • Define boundaries with data engineering and analytics • Provide stakeholders with decisions supported by validated metrics rather than notebooks

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in data science • 2+ years leading or mentoring scientists • Experience as the first or second scientist is valued • Models in production with live traffic, monitoring, and quantified effects • Fraud or risk modelling depth • Experience in at least one of: identity resolution and entity matching, forecasting, churn and lifetime value, personalisation, uplift modelling, causal inference • Strong SQL against large transaction and event data in a columnar warehouse • Strong Python • Ability to write maintainable, executable code • Experimental and causal rigour, including quasi-experimental methods where randomisation is not possible • Consumer fintech or payments fluency, including transactions, funnels, cohorts, and fraud patterns • Ability to align product, engineering, marketing, and commercial stakeholders on one problem definition • AI-assisted working, with the ability to explain all shipped output

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business • Top-of-the-market compensation packages • Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more

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