Data Scientist

7 months ago


Pretoria, South Africa Professional Sourcing Full time

**Job Overview**:
A **blue-chip financial services group** has a new job opportunity available for an experienced **Data Scientist**.

**Position Overview**:
**_ The Data Scientist _**_will leverage _**_industry knowledge_**_ and _**_analytical expertise_**_ to _**_lead the analysis of data_**_ in support of policy and decision-making with respect to the departmental strategic mandate._

**Key Performance Areas**:

- **Prepare data for statistical modelling** by identifying data correlations, and collinearity and perform the required feature engineering.
- **Develop robust statistical models** that are **modular, scalable, deployable, reproducible** and **versioned for analytics and reporting purposes**.
- **Deploy**, **maintain**, **enhance**, **optimise and automate** **analytics solutions**.

**Essential Experience, Qualifications and Skills Required**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- **Bachelor’s degree** in the **science**, **technology**, **engineering,** and **mathematics** **(STEM)** field, an **advanced degree is strongly preferred**.
- Relevant **Data Science Certification** /**Data Analytics/Visualization Certification** required.
- **6 - 8 Years**’ experience in **Building**, **Maintaining** and **Optimising Data and Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions**, of which **_3 - 5 years_**_ is _**_Building Advanced Analytics Solutions as part of an analytics setup_** in a company/analytics service provider.
- **Two years’** experience in **deploying, maintaining**, and **optimising advanced analytics solutions.


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