Lead Specialist, Data & Artificial Intelligence Delivery Management
Role Overview
The Lead Specialist, Data Science & Analytics drives development, deployment, and adoption of advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions across Maaden.
The role transforms complex business challenges into scalable analytical solutions that generate measurable value across mining, processing, operations, and corporate functions.
The role bridges business priorities with technical execution, ensuring analytical products progress efficiently from concept through deployment and industrialization.
Through technical leadership, governance oversight, and stakeholder engagement, the role ensures analytical solutions are reliable, scalable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The Lead Specialist, Data Science & Analytics drives development, deployment, and adoption of advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions across Maaden.
The role transforms complex business challenges into scalable analytical solutions that generate measurable value across mining, processing, operations, and corporate functions.
The role bridges business priorities with technical execution, ensuring analytical products progress efficiently from concept through deployment and industrialization.
Through technical leadership, governance oversight, and stakeholder engagement, the role ensures analytical solutions are reliable, scalable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end development of machine learning, AI, and advanced analytics solutions that address high-value business challenges.
- Deliver scalable, production-ready models that improve operational efficiency, reliability, productivity, and decision-making.
- Translate business priorities into actionable analytics opportunities, value hypotheses, and implementation roadmaps.
- Identify, prioritize, and develop AI and analytics use cases that deliver measurable operational and financial outcomes.
- Establish clear success measures, KPIs, and value realization frameworks for analytical initiatives.
- Enable seamless deployment of analytical models into enterprise systems, operational platforms, and digital environments.
- Strengthen model reliability and scalability through effective MLOps practices, lifecycle management, and monitoring standards.
- Partner with Data Engineering teams to improve analytical environments, data pipelines, and model readiness.
- Ensure data assets meet enterprise requirements for accuracy, integrity, security, and compliance.
- Embed responsible AI principles, governance controls, and quality standards across analytical solutions.
- Build strong partnerships with business, technology, and Data & AI stakeholders to accelerate solution adoption.
- Communicate analytical insights, risks, recommendations, and outcomes through compelling narratives and visualizations.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 6-8 years of experience in data science, machine learning, advanced analytics, or AI-related roles.
- Experience developing and deploying production-grade analytical and machine learning solutions.
- Experience translating business problems into analytical frameworks, predictive models, and actionable recommendations.
- Experience working with cross-functional business, technology, and data teams in complex organizational environments.
Skills That Matter
- Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
- Predictive Analytics & Statistical Modeling
- Data Mining & Pattern Discovery
- Feature Engineering & Model Optimization
- Data Visualization & Analytical Storytelling
- AI Solution Design & Industrialization
- Python, SQL & Advanced Analytics Tools
- MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management
- Data Pipeline & Analytical Environment Design
- AI Product Delivery & Value Realization
- Data Governance & Compliance
- Performance Measurement & KPI Development
Success Measures
Machine learning and AI solutions deliver measurable operational, financial, and productivity improvements.
Analytical products are successfully adopted and sustained across targeted business functions.
Models achieve required standards for performance, reliability, scalability, and business relevance.
AI and analytics projects progress efficiently from concept to production deployment.
Data science initiatives demonstrate compliance with governance, security, and Responsible AI requirements.
Business stakeholders make faster and better decisions through trusted analytical insights and predictive capabilities.
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