Data Scientist

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, test, and deploy complex machine learning and Generative AI models and algorithms that drive analytical solutions across organization
  • Collaborate with translators and understand business problems to implement scalable and sustainable solutions
  • Coordinate with business intelligence, Digital Specialists and Data Engineers to deliver holistic analytics solutions
  • Supports translators in communicating the design, operation and output of the analytics models/solutions developed
  • Ensures appropriate analysis and regular solution maintenance testing over time
Technical skills:
  • Postgraduate degree in Mathematical Statistics/Data Science, Actuarial Science or Applied Mathematics or related technical discipline (Economics/Engineering/Computer Science acceptable with majors / research in statistics / data science); masters degree is an advantage
  • 3+ years' experience in a statistical and/or data science role; executing ML-driven analytics use cases E2E (data, ML models, change management, execution and monitoring) is a big advantage
  • Must have experience in machine learning, statistics, optimization, or related fields
  • Must understand key ML concepts such as ML model training and evaluation, boosting models, bias-variance trade-off, feature engineering, clustering approaches, A/B testing, leakage
  • Programming / coding experience is necessary; specific experience in Python is a plus
  • Experience working with large data sets, simulation/optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc.) is a plus
Other skills:
  • Business intuition:understand links between available data schema, modeling choices and business considerations
  • Open to work in agile environments with multiple stakeholders
  • Professional and service orientation attitude; team player
  • Good verbal and written communication
  • Quickly learn business needs and translate them into possible analytical solutions
  • Strong work ethic; ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus
  • Able to build a sense of trust and relationship that creates a comfortable and effective workplace
  • Attitude to thrive in an accelerated environment

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1359323
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned