Data Scientist Lead
- Doha, Qatar
Posted 3 days ago
About the role
🚀 Welcome to Your Next Adventure!
🛠 What You’ll Get Your Hands On
- Act as a strategic advisor, combining technical expertise with domain knowledge to solve complex business challenges and unlock growth opportunities.
- Unblock team members and drive solutions under tight timelines, ensuring delivery without compromising on quality or technical standards.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing DS&AI team, fostering technical excellence, business impact, continuous learning, and professional growth.
- Drive innovation by researching, evaluating, and integrating cutting-edge techniques (e.g. advanced forecasting, personalization, generative AI) into production solutions.
- Shape and influence the organizational data strategy, defining standards and practices to maximize long-term business impact.
- Lead and oversee the full lifecycle of high-impact DS&AI projects, from scoping and design to production deployment, ensuring measurable outcomes for the business.
- Define and communicate the technical vision for the DS&AI team, ensuring alignment of solutions with company strategy and stakeholder priorities.
- Safeguard project quality by setting technical best practices, reviewing designs, and providing strategic technical guidance across initiatives.
- Guide experimentation and model validation through advanced methodologies (A/B testing, switchbacks, Bayesian approaches), ensuring results translate into business KPIs.
- Oversee deployment, monitoring, and scaling of ML and GenAI systems, ensuring performance, governance, and sustainability at scale.
- MSc in Data Science, Big Data, AI, Statistics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or statistical modeling, with at least 1 year in a leadership role.
- Advanced expertise in statistical modeling, experimental design, and specialized ML/DL domains (e.g. recommendation systems, time series, NLP, AI agents).
- Proven track record of leading end-to-end, high-impact projects from problem framing to deployment, with ownership of business metrics and measurable value delivery.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to define technical direction and align it with strategic business priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to grow and mentor teams, set high technical standards, and ensure long-term quality and sustainability of DS & AI products.
- Proven success in leading teams through the design, deployment, and scaling of ML/DL models in production, with strategy-setting for real-time, low-latency, and streaming environments.
- Experience defining strategy and leading cross-functional teams to build, deploy, and scale LLM-based applications.
- Deep expertise in SQL, with the ability to architect, debug, and optimize highly complex queries and pipelines for large-scale data environments.
- Proven expertise in marketplaces, delivery, or logistics tech, with the ability to compound DS methods with deep domain knowledge.
Snoonu is Qatar’s homegrown Super App, reinventing daily life with blazing-fast delivery, shopping, and more – all in one place. Powered by tech, driven by a global team, and obsessed with making life easier.
The Dream We’re Chasing
To be the first Qatari Ultra App that propels the region and its community through innovation and technology. We have global ambitions where what we do surpasses norms and limitations every time.
The Quest We’re On
To radically transform how people live by leveraging technology to connect them with endless possibilities.
Our Everyday Superpowers
Be Customer Obsessed : “Focus on the customer and all else will follow.”
Act with Integrity: “We are honest, ethical, and trustworthy in everything we do.”
Be Curious and Creative: “We constantly innovate and create solutions to bring a lasting positive impact.”
Lead by Example and Take Ownership: “Be the change you want to see and take ownership.”
Work Smart and Deliver Results : “You can do more by doing less, better, and faster.”
It's All About People: “Be a team player; together we are stronger.”
Real Builders Ship: “We turn ideas into products, plans into action, and challenges into opportunities.”
Perks & Worklife Magic At Snoonu
🌐 Global Vibes – Collaborate with a worldwide crew.
🧠 Brain Boosters – Learning budgets, access to courses, and tools for your growth.
🚒 Builder’s Playground – Own your tasks, own your path! We’re big on autonomy.
🏝️ Flexible Time Off – We take recharging seriously. Generous leave and wellness policies.
🛠️ Agile Everything – Scrum isn’t a buzzword here. It’s how we roll, from product to ops.
Great Place to Work® Certified
We’re certified as a Great Place to Work®, a recognition that celebrates a culture we’ve built together where people come first, always. This certification reflects our commitment to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, empowered, and inspired to do their best work.
Certified for Excellence
Our ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications demonstrate our dedication to world-class quality and a safe, supportive workplace, reinforcing our promise to deliver exceptional service while prioritizing the wellbeing of our people.
Beyond the Code: Giving Back Matters
We don’t just build apps. We’re committed to doing business sustainably and giving back to the community that fuels us. From eco-conscious practices to CSR projects, we’re always finding ways to do better—and we invite you to be a part of that mission.
Diversity Isn’t Just a Buzzword
At Snoonu, fairness and inclusion are the foundation of everything we do. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that welcomes people from every walk of life. Be bold. Be you. Thrive here.
Let’s Build the Future Together
Apply now to join a team where your contributions spark a change and your voice is heard. Let’s make some magic together.
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