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Hays

Applied AI Lead

Hays
United Arab Emirates · Full-time · Director

Applied AI Lead

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Financial Services & Investments

This position is on-site in Dubai


*Relocation benefits are available for successful candidates relocating from overseas*


We are recruiting for a financial services client who are looking for a Applied AI Lead to establish an Applied Artificial Intelligence division for their office in Dubai.


This is a new position within the company, you will be tasked on both hands on delivery and building the team.


What the role looks like:

  • Build an 18-month roadmap for data science & AI.
  • Design and build data science & AI products, including custom agentic products/applications leveraging Enterprise LLM's and other tools.
  • Support the investment data science team (public and private markets).
  • Be able to advise on the right services, toolkits, resources in support of projects and products.
  • Introduce an implementation plan for Responsible AI practices into the AI platform.


Experience needed:

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in applied data science or AI/ML delivery (within finance / investments is desired)
  • 5+ years management experience
  • Develop, train, and deploy machine learning models.
  • Applied experience using large language models.
  • Experience managing quant, data science, and AI third parties internally and externally.
  • RAG Pipelines.
  • Establishing and managing an Applied AI team.
  • Knowledge of responsible AI practices.
  • MSc or PhD in relevant STEM (desired).


If you are interested in this position, please apply and share your profile so we can arrange a confidential discussion. Equally if you know someone who might be a good fit for the role, let's connect.


Due to the number of applicants, only candidates with the relevant experience against the requirements will be contacted.

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Posted
Dec 30, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Director
Location
Dubai
Company
Hays

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Categories

Information Technology

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