Data Scientist

October 15, 2024

Cape Town

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