# Senior Data Scientist - Salla Platforms Metrics & Analytics at Salla

> Open job at Salla in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Workplace: Remote (Saudi Arabia).

Source: Gulf Dev Jobs, https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-senior-data-scientist-salla-platforms-metrics-analytics-ern6ptj
Posted 23 July 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 11 November 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [Salla](https://gulfdevjobs.com/companies/salla)
- Location: Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Workplace: Remote (Saudi Arabia)
- Employment type: Full-time
- Arabic: Not required
- Skills: BigQuery, ClickHouse, Python, SQL, dbt
- Not mentioned in the job post: salary, housing, flights, visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## Job description

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to own the metrics and analytics layer of a growing e-commerce platform. You will be the driving force behind how merchants understand and grow their businesses through data — ensuring every report, metric, and model delivered through the platform is accurate, unified, and built to scale.

You will work closely with the Platform Reports Product Manager, Platform Data Quality Engineers and partner with PMs across all product areas to unify our data models and establish a single, coherent analytical foundation. Your north star: the success of merchant reports and analytics — giving every merchant on the platform a reliable, well-documented view of their growth.

#### What You'll Do

- Own the analytics direction of the Data Platform — define the vision, standards, and roadmap for metrics, models, and reporting delivered through the platform layer.
- Unify data models across product areas — work with the Platform Reports PM and all PMs to consolidate fragmented metric definitions into a single, governed semantic layer.
- Drive merchant analytics success — design, validate, and continuously improve the reports and analytics every merchant relies on to study and grow their business.
- Establish documentation standards — ensure every API, dataset, metric, and column is correctly named, clearly defined, and formally documented, so definitions are consistent from the warehouse to the merchant-facing report.
- Enable growth analysis — build the analytical foundations (cohorts, funnels, growth metrics, benchmarks) that let merchants and internal teams study growth accurately.
- Guard data quality and consistency — define validation rules, reconciliation checks, and metric governance so numbers match everywhere they appear.
- Partner cross-functionally — act as the analytical authority for the platform layer, advising engineering, product, and other analytics teams on how to build against it correctly.

**Requirements**

- 5+ years of experience in data science or analytics engineering, with at least 2 years in a senior or ownership-level role.
- Proven experience building or governing metrics layers / semantic models (e.g., dbt, LookML, or equivalent) used by multiple teams.
- Strong SQL and Python; deep comfort working directly with warehouse-level data (BigQuery, Clickhouse, Redshift, or similar).
- Experience designing customer- or merchant-facing analytics products — dashboards, embedded reports, or analytics APIs.
- A strong instinct for naming, documentation, and standards — you believe a well-named column and a well-written definition are product features.
- Experience partnering with product managers to translate business questions into governed, reusable data models.
- Excellent communication skills; able to align multiple teams around a single source of truth.

#### Nice to Have

- Experience in e-commerce or SaaS platforms, especially with merchant/seller analytics.
- Familiarity with metric stores or semantic layers at scale (Cube, dbt Semantic Layer, Metriql, etc.).
- Experience defining API contracts and data documentation practices (data catalogs, OpenAPI specs, column-level lineage).
- Statistical modeling or forecasting experience applied to growth analytics.
- Arabic language proficiency is a plus.

**Benefits**

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-senior-data-scientist-salla-platforms-metrics-analytics-ern6ptj: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

## More jobs from Salla

- [Senior ML Backend Engineer - Search & Recommendations](https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-senior-ml-backend-engineer-search-recommendations-ule5scn): Salla, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Remote (Saudi Arabia). Posted 14 October 2026.
- [Cloud Native Data Ops](https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-cloud-native-data-ops-k54j6m9): Salla, Medina, Saudi Arabia. On-site. Posted 12 October 2026.
- [Senior QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)](https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-senior-qa-engineer-manual-automation-v1vdkj1): Salla, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Remote (Saudi Arabia). Posted 8 October 2026.
- [Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink](https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-lead-backend-engineer-paylink-sbanbv8): Salla, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. On-site. Posted 28 September 2026.
- [Senior Backend Engineer - PayLink](https://gulfdevjobs.com/jobs/salla-senior-backend-engineer-paylink-pnrf7bj): Salla, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. On-site. Posted 28 September 2026.