Job Description

Closing Date 2025/04/27
Reference Number MMH241210-12
Job Title Senior Data Scientist
Position Type Permanent
Role Family Business Intelligence
Cluster Health Solutions
Remote Opportunity Some of the time
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Western Cape
Location - Town / City Cape Town
IntroductionMomentum Health, an entity of Momentum Group delivers sustainable, integrated health solutions that meet the needs of clients in the different segments and maximise lifetime client value. We build and maintain a culture of innovation, and create value through unique insights of how to achieve specific outcomes by using a defined set of Health capabilities. Our goal as a business is to create more health for more people for less. Alongside our group motto to protect our client's financial needs.
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Role PurposeCreate and deliver data driven solutions that add business value through the use of statistical models, machine learning algorithms, data mining and visualisation techniques.
Requirements

• Postgraduate degree in qualitative disciplines that include significant exposure to mathematics, statistics and computer science.
• Degree in mathematics, statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or other quantitative field.
• 4+ years data science experience and more than 3 years of experience in software/cloud development.
• Extensive experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Python), business analytics software (e.g. SAS) statistical package (e.g. R).
• Experience in database language (e.g. SQL).
• Experience in building and managing big data platforms.
• Deep theoretical understanding of statistical methods and machine learning techniques.
• Extensive software engineering experience and cloud understanding.
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence solutions and techniques.
• Ability to apply statistical methods and machine learning techniques to solve business problems.
• Formulating business problems to enable statistical modelling.
• Selecting the right statistical tools and techniques for the job.
• Experience translating statistical findings into business recommendations.
• Industry experience in Healthcare and/or Insurance.
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Duties & Responsibilities

• Identify and develop Predictive and Prescriptive Models to enable better decision making of business.
• Identify, understand and interpret data structures across various databases within the business to facilitate data analysis and continuous monitoring activities.
• Delve for insights in data and processes to help improve the business.
• Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analysis; business requirements gathering and designs validation.
• Ensure product and/or solution design is congruent with the required business specifications through meeting stakeholder requirements timeously.
• Enable the realisation of the financial business benefits accruing including minimisation of operational costs by ensuring that solutions are implemented effectively.
• Model and frame business scenarios that are meaningful and which impact on critical business processes and/or decisions.
• Participate and/or lead discovery processes with business stakeholders to identify problems and opportunities that may be addressed with statistical modelling or machine learning.
• Collaborate with business to define approach to resolution of key business problems or development of new business strategies.
• Contribute to the business by highlighting possible opportunities for process improvement and business value creation.
• Identify and develop the hypothesis testing framework and modelling approach to address the business requirements.
• Identify available and relevant data, potentially leveraging new data collection processes such as social media.
• Make strategic recommendations on data collection and experimental design incorporating business requirements and knowledge of best practices.
• Prepare the data for analysis and modelling, which includes data cleaning, standardisation, transformation, dimension reduction and feature engineering.
• Identify and train suitable models/algorithms to discover patterns and make predictions.
• Extend existing code and develop custom code to implement statistical models, machine learning algorithms and data mining techniques for large datasets in a computationally efficient manner.
• Compare model performance, select the best algorithm for the job and be able to motivate this choice in a non-technical manner.
• Interpret results and translate findings into clear and actionable insights that can be easily validated with the project sponsor.
• Communicate findings to business with various skill levels and in various roles, presenting trends, correlations and patterns found in complicated datasets in a manner that clearly and concisely conveys meaningful insights.
• Assist business users in the use of the models and interpretation of model output.
• Assist with monitoring and reporting on model accuracy after it has been embedded in operations.
• Assist with monitoring and managing cloud expenditure and budget.
• Help lead and mentor team members and collaborate in problem solving.
• Lead projects and manage delivery expectations.

Competencies

• Business Acumen.
• Drive for Results.
• Leads Change and Innovation.
• Impact and Influence.
• Collaboration.
• Self-Awareness and Insight.
• Numeric skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Process skills.
• Communication skills.

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