Senior Data Scientist

# Senior Data Scientist Islamic Development Bank Jeddah Senior Level Share:##

Job Description ##
** JOB PURPOSE
** Undertake advanced statistical and data science work. This includes compiling, harmonizing, developing, and disseminating key statistical indicators and predictive models to support evidence-based research and inform management decisions. Provide high-quality, timely statistics and data-driven insights that are crucial for guiding IsDB's operational strategies and enhancing country-level dialogues. A core part of the role involves ensuring that the IsDB website is updated with the latest, high-quality data and analytical insights on the bank's interventions and its member countries.

Additionally, the role involves developing and maintaining robust, well-governed databases and data pipelines, leveraging modern data technologies and advanced analytical methods, including machine learning, using platforms such as Microsoft Azure. It also promotes the adoption of innovative data techniques across the IsDB Group and its Member Countries, while coordinating with regional and international statistical agencies to align with global statistical standards and initiatives.##

** KEY

ACCOUNTABILITIES
**** Policy and Strategy Planning:*
* • Contribute to the Division’s annual work plans, programs and activities.  
• Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies, policies, procedures, and guidelines of the IsDB Institute.  
• Contribute to the development and effective implementation of the relevant frameworks and tools for the Economic Work under the Economic Research and Statistics programs of the IsDB Institute.  
• Contribute to the effective risk management and country, vulnerability, and debt sustainability assessments of IsDB member countries.
** Statistical Analysis:*
* • Utilize advanced visualization tools and programming languages (e.g., Python, R, Tableau, Power BI, JavaScript, etc.) modern web technologies, and cloud-based analytics tools to transform raw data into interactive dashboards and easy-to- understand graphical representations, including web-based data applications and institutional analytical products.
• Develop and improve the aggregation techniques and methods to meet international standards and best practices including reproducible statistical workflows, automated indicator calculation pipelines, and documented methodological standards.
• Refine and optimize code to improve efficiency and ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and performance across data pipelines, APIs, dashboards, and analytical applications.
• Apply and deploy AI and Machine Learning techniques in data management, analysis, and quality control in Microsoft Azure , including Azure Data Lake, Azure Functions, App Service, and Dev Ops-based deployment workflows.
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable AI solutions, including machine learning models, internal chatbots, and AI-enabled dashboards—to improve data access, automate validation, and support decision-making across the IsDB Group.
• Proactively seek and identify new datasets that align with the IsDB Group's needs including official, third-party, internal, and emerging data sources relevant to macroeconomic, development, and institutional analysis.
• Compile data from Member Countries and other relevant third-party databases and official sources to produce appropriate data sets, key indicators, and aggregates for use by different departments across the IsDB Group including automated ingestion, transformation, and standardization of time-series, country-level, and institutional datasets.##
** KEY

ACCOUNTABILITIES *
* • Develop appropriate mething and organizing relevant data, with special emphasis on the areas of macroeconomic analysis for sustainable development to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the development of centralized, governed institutional data repositories.
• Validate and ensure the credibility of the data compiled from the various official sources to ensure its accuracy, consistency, and comparability using automated quality checks, anomaly detection, reconciliation methods, and…