Zakaria El Ghoul

Ai & Data Engineer

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Experience

  • AI & Data Engineer – Global Graduate Program at Symrise AG
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Based in the Global Data & AI Hub in Barcelona, I work as a Finance AI & Data Engineer contributing to the development of enterprise data products and AI-driven solutions supporting Symrise’s finance and business teams. My role focuses on building scalable data assets, enabling advanced analytics and deploying AI use cases across the organization. Key contributions: • Finance Data Asset (FDA) – Design and development of the finance data platform enabling standardized financial reporting and analytics across the global company • Development of data pipelines (ETL.. ) and transformations using Databricks, DBT, and Azure following a medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold) • Month-End Landing Forecasting (MEL) – AI project aimed at predicting financial landing for the month-end closing using historical financial data • Development of an internal Competitive Intelligence Chatbot leveraging LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to help teams access market and competitor insights • Collaboration with global teams (Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Finance stakeholders) to design scalable data solutions and deliver AI use cases

  • AI & Data analyst at Lazard
    Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Artificial Intelligence Engineer: Design internal chatbots for multiple teams. Needs identification, prototyping, and presentation of solutions. ◦ AI Transformation & Strategy: Organization of AI strategic workshops with the management of various departments across the bank. Identification of operational use cases and testing with business teams. ◦ Business Intelligence: Analysis of business requirements and full creation of automated Power BI dashboards enabling optimized decision-making. ◦ Data Security & Governance: Contribution to the definition and implementation of a strategy for securing sensitive client data, in coordination with IT and compliance teams.

  • Finance Data scientist at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS)
    Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos

    Prediction of prices in European Market using Machine Learning and Deep Learning models.

  • Lazard (Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France)
    • Support Data analyst
      Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 · 10 mos

      ◦ Data Analysis: Conducted in-depth data analysis, built interactive dashboards, and interpreted technical KPIs to support IT decision-making and improve system performance. ◦ Application Monitoring & Incident Management: Gathered monitoring requirements from IT teams and implemented customized solutions using Python and SQL. ◦ Incident Management: Ensured seamless application availability by proactively detecting anomalies and collaborating with IT, business, and sales teams to resolve production incidents efficiently. ◦ Artificial Intelligence Training: Led the AI adoption initiative at Lazard France. Designed and delivered weekly company-wide training sessions to strengthen employees’ understanding of AI concepts, tools, and strategic implications for the organization.

    • Applications support engineer
      May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

  • Private tuition at Self-employed
    2019 - May 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos