Head of Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of this role is to lead and oversee the entire AI strategy for the group, ensuring it aligns with overarching business objectives. Consequently, this AI leadership role is pivotal in steering the company toward innovative growth and operational excellence. The role should provide thought leadership and strategic direction to influence the overall roadmap with initiatives that value value-generating and manage internal and external development teams; the role will ensure the alignment of solution designs conforming to regulatory demands, architectural standards, business requirements, budgets, and IT strategy.

Education, Experience and Skills:

• Up-to-date knowledge of AI research areas and current developments in AI, such as Safe AI, Ethical AI, and Fair AI.
• Experience in Cloud AI/ML services on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloud computing services
• Knowledgeable about Big Data technologies and related cloud services
• Experience in the Software development lifecycle, project implementation methodologies such as agile, and Software engineering principles
• DevOps concepts for ML pipeline automation
• Infrastructure knowledge for deciding physical/virtual m/c for model retraining, etc
• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing elegant machine learning models at the internet scale.
• High-level experience in AI/ML fundamentals
• Strong background in software
• Up-to-date knowledge of AI/ML technologies and their trends, including various libraries and tools
• Built feature stores and auto ML capabilities.
• End-to-end ML work and deploying of models
• Knowledge of how full-stack SaaS products work, scale and perform
• Commercial experience building architecture on AWS.
• Expertise with cutting-edge technologies such as transfer learning, unsupervised feature generation, meta-learning, generative text models, computer vision, sensor fusion, or reinforcement learning
• Proficient in deep programming to implement solutions in production.
• Advanced data science and mathematical skills.
• Experience with modern databases, cloud environments, and data ecosystems.
• Experience defining and leading large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience within a leadership role where you have proven success with building and maintaining teams.
• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

We warmly encourage talented Emiratis to submit their applications.