Data Scientist – Johannesburg – up to R800k per annum - Johannesburg
A publicly listed organisation well known for its excellent service delivery, diverse company offerings, and customer focused services at the core of its business is currently on a quest to upgrade their technology environment in this pursuit they are in need of a passionate Data Scientist ready to design, prototype, and build next-generation analytic engines and services by applying strong expertise in machine learning, data mining and conducting information retrieval within a new environment.
Job requirements:
- Understand and interpret business requirements and translate them into analytical reporting solutions.
- Develop actuarial / statistical models to enable data driven decision making.
- Identify appropriate models / algorithms to mine large datasets and develop rich insights into member behaviour.
- Employ advanced data analytics and machine learning techniques to detect fraudulent activity.
- Identify key trends and interact with business to understand the impact of these trends and identify possible courses of action to mitigate / take advantage of the trends identified.
- A solid understanding of relational databases and data flows between systems.
- Ability to create dashboards, reports and data visualisation.
Qualification and Experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar
- 5+ years experience in a data science role
- Machine learning experience across multiple projects/ doing different types of projects / working on out-of-the ordinary problems
- History of end-to-end project involvement
- Proven history of innovation, delivering and problem solving
- Strong Python experience
- Short-term insurance/financial experience beneficial
- AWS experience beneficial
- SAS experience is beneficial
The Reference Number for this position is NG58496 which is a Permanent Remote position based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company from R600k up to R800k Per Annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at
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