Data Scientist
7 months ago
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary
Work collaboratively across the business area to assess the key business challenges that can be solved by data & translate these requirements into data driven solutions for the area. Work on high value & high complexity data science problems & leverage deep data science expertise in advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering &predictive modeling, storytelling, distributed computing & data visualization, machine learning tools & data intuition to operationalize & continuously improve data solutions that deliver relevant, quality assured, accurate & commercially impactful data to the business.
**Job Description**:
Project Work (70%)
- Translate the business challenges into key questions that can be solved with data solutions
- Participate in the data acquisition, data mining, and data project management duties relating to projects
- Design fit for purpose data interpretation & analysis approaches & create customized data models, algorithms, machine learning tools and recommendation engines to achieve the desired business outcome
- Use advanced data science skills to mine & interpret data. These include but are not limited to advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, distributed computing, machine learning tools & data intuition.
- Be able to understand, build and interpret results of unsupervised and semi-supervised learning methodologies.
- Build and maintain analytical tools to generate insights, predict behavior and recognize patterns
- Work with team on understanding requirements based and translate these into trackable analytical problems relaying results in common business language with decision making implications
- Analyze data across multiple systems and formats to provide analytics and information that provides integrated views necessary for project outcomes and deliver for the business and the customer
- Proactively partner the data Analytics teams to assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources & data gathering techniques
- Proactively stay ahead of the curve on data science trends & leading practice data science tools and techniques & transition the organization to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of data
- Deliver on time & on budget (always)
Data Governance and Control (20%)
- Understand frameworks, sources of data and data flows
- Ensure accuracy of data collected and ensure data governance required is met and adhered to
- Drive data governance responsibilities across all pieces of work
Stakeholder Management (10%)
- Ensure data models and design are communicated to and understood by Business Stakeholders
- Provide business-oriented insights and articulate how solutions can support these
- Play key role in leadership of Change projects in driving data deliverables and their impact in achieving project outcomes
Education
Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_
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