Organization Unit Purpose Emirates NBD is one of the largest banks in the Middle East, with over USD 6Bn in revenues and 14000 employees globally. As part of its strategic mandate, the bank has setup its Advanced Analytics Centre of Excellence for driving ENBD’s ambitious advanced analytics agenda across the group. The COE is organized across four core areas: Advanced Analytics Product Office – led by the Chief AA Product Officer Data Strategy – led by the Chief Data Governance Officer Data Science Platform – led by the Chief Data Scientist Data Storytelling and BI Reporting – led by Chief Data Visualization Officer The mandate for the Advanced Analytics Product Office is to build an estate of enduring Advanced Analytics Products which drive measurable business value for the organization. AA Products are business owned with the Product Owners for these products line-reporting into business units. The AA Product Office can be understood to be a center for delivering specialized AA Capabilities. Capabilities include: Incubation and Experimentation – AA Product ideation, opportunity sizing, feasibility analysis, Proof-of-Concepts, root cause analysis for poorly performing AA Products, etc. Value Assurance – business value impact tracking, business value reporting, impact tracking setup Scaling Capabilities (to be managed by the Head of Scaling) Build – delivery squad formation, data science/engineering resourcing, IT resourcing. Rollout – supporting change management, systems integration, incentive design, proposition design. Maintenance and Support – model retraining, model refresh, hypothesis review, interface with underlying platform and data support services Job Purpose Reporting into the Chief Advanced Analytics Product Officer, the Head of Advanced Analytics Scaling provides delivery and scaling services to the Bank’s community of Advanced Analytics Product Owners. The role has a bank-wide mandate and is tasked with growing the business value impact of the Bank’s estate of Advanced Analytics products. The Bank operates a hybrid delivery model – a small team of delivery leads reporting into the Head of AA Scaling, a central pool of data scientists and data engineers reporting into the Chief Data Scientist, and a growing population of business-embedded analytics practitioners combine to drive the Bank’s advanced analytics book of work. The Head of Advanced Analytics Scaling plays the central coordinating role in staffing the squads necessary to deliver and maintain the Banks estate of advanced analytics products. Along with overseeing core Build, Rollout, and Maintenance/Support capabilities the Head of Analytics scaling carries responsibilities across: AA Product Roadmaps – working in partnership with product owners (and Incubation team as required) to build out AA Product roadmaps (incl cross over opportunities) that ultimately grow the business value impact of individual AA products. AA Use Case cost and budget tracking – Squad and non-squad level costs, including monitoring active and closed project codes Best Practice – harvesting and promoting reusable assets that reduce the time to market for advanced analytic products Training – curating and promoting learning pathways to support the build, maintenance, and growth of advanced analytic products Analytics Culture – raising the analytics literacy of the organization as a whole Job Content Support AA POs on the successful delivery of AA Products Delivery squad formation Build and maintain team of Advanced Analytics Delivery Leads Capacity planning of central resourcing across delivery squads Supporting the onboarding of business-embedded practitioners onto Data Science Platform Coaching and Problem Solving for AA POs and Delivery Leads Flagging potential bottlenecks/risks and actively resolving while collaborating with DS Chapter or Data Science Platform AA PO point of escalation for resourcing, model/platform support, and broader data issues Tracking active project codes, costs incurred across squad level and non-squad level costs. Use case level budget formulation and tracking. Help broaden AA Product impact Maintaining and optimizing AA Product business impact Partner with POs and incubation team to build future roadmaps for successful AA Products Drive AA Product cross-over opportunities - deploying proven AA Products in related business areas Flagging degrading AA products and devising strategies to arrest degradations Simplify and Standardize AA Product Lifecycle Harvest reusable assets to support AA Product build /maintenance/support Promote best practices across AA Product delivery squads, examples include catalogues of product incentive types, catalogue of successful rollout strategies. Identify delivery/maintenance/support bottlenecks and devise strategies/solutions to overcome Add onto the feature store backlog Build Advanced Analytics Culture Be a thought leader for AA Product delivery Build a community of practice for AA Product delivery Host events to drive community engagement Manage Bank-wide AA Product Book of Work Monthly reporting of active and backlog use case inventory along with an MIS on use case time/ effort spent MIS on use case squad and non-squad level costs MIS on operational tracking across all active use cases Supporting quarterly planning for use case delivery across squads (AA squads and tenants) Experiences 10+ Years experience in banking 5+ Years experience leading analytics projects Experience managing high-performing teams Experience in agile working environments #J-18808-Ljbffr