Job Description

SUMMARY:
Data Scientist - Johannesburg - R700k to R900k per annumPOSITION INFO:One of Africaxe2x80x99s largest English-language news publishers in print and owns a number of B2B and B2C magazines as well as an events division, amongst others while connecting people of all cultures, enabling economies to thrive are in the market for a Data Scientist with a specialist skill set within the in the business. The main purpose of the role is to create and facilitate appropriate access to data for key stakeholders creating visibility for the business, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance.Responsibilities:

• Modelling of complex business problems.
• Identifying opportunities to improve business processes.
• Building tailor made SQL solutions for monitoring and automation of controls.
• Development of exception reports and Power BI dashboards for stakeholders in the business.
• Utilising Store procedures to create routines that maintain reporting and automated controls.
• Identify and build appropriate models/other solutions for use in the company''s operations.
• Creating logic links between data from various systems to facilitate cross system reporting.
• Automation of controls in the business processes.
• Design and implement automated data comparisons to trigger certain processes.
• Simplifying complex manual processes into simple automated (or semi-automated) processes.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Statistics/Computer Science/

/ Mathematics (or combination of)

• 4 xe2x80x93 6 years relevant experience
• Expert level knowledge of SQL
• Advanced EXCEL
• Experience using Power BI or similar tools
• Visual Studio
• Python
• SQL
• Power BI
• Machine learning
• Google cloud
• Google Certs (Google analytics)

The Reference Number for this position is NG57915 which is a Contract position in Johannesburg offering a salary of R700k up to R900k CTC salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on -Merge.co.za or call her for a chat on to discuss this and other opportunities.Are you ready for a change of scenery? e-Merge IT recruitment is a niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right people with the right companies, in the right roles. Check out the e-Merge IT website for more great positions.Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals!

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