Data Scientist

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

Hello Future Data Scientist III

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talent team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

We are currently in search of a senior Data Scientist to lead our reporting capability for both Campaigns and Offers. To drive the data strategy and build data products and reporting that allow business units to access insights easily and accurately. Ensuring good stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment with broader strategy.

Are you someone who can:

- Innovate by finding the best fit solution for the situation such as the flexibility of delivery and customized solutions which result in more efficient outcomes.
- Provide input into localisation of appropriate model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process and integration of business modelling and analytics value chain.
- Adhere to model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process.
- Ensure own ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification.
- Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy.
- Ensure reporting of any Information Privacy Incidents and escalate appropriately for resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit
- Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments.
- Create delivery plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders to understand information requirements for strategy delivery and define metrics that track performance.
- Analyse available data to identify information commercialisation opportunities that have not been explored to address business needs and revenue options.
- Productionize analytics in the approved FirstRand architecture by translating technical data information into practical business information that addresses identified needs.
- Analyse information requirements, availability and quality of data to feed into management for resolution.
- Contribute to the development of core analytical capabilities or model libraries using advanced statistical, quantitative or econometric techniques and utilise as appropriate.
- Collaborate with numerous departments across the business to aid them in the proper use of data to ensure delivery of desired operational results.
- Participate in relevant project related to the business overall analytical needs and opportunities.
- Build models that analyse processes to recommend areas for optimisation to achieve cost savings, revenue generation or
- efficiency improvements for the business.
- Document and audit relevant processes.
- Document and implement models to address specific business requirements.
- Conduct appropriate manipulation and analysis of data to pro-actively identify and meet needs of the business for the purpose of future work and to ensure high information-quality and reliability across the business.
- algorithm optimisation in data defined products.
- Implement Machine learning mathematical algorithms and automation techniques using open-source programming languages such as SAS or Python libraries.
- Utilise advanced Predictive modelling techniques to hold insight into outcomes and future events thatmconfront key assumptions.
- Utilise data to model complex abstractions in machine learning research to enable deep learning.
- Utilise pattern recognition technology to recognizes patterns in data and the criteria for use interchangeably with machine learning technology.
- Conduct Text analytics to examine unstructured data to glean key business insights.
- Understand principles of Data Wrangling to identify and recommend corrective actions for imperfections in data quality.
- Participate in enterprise-wide high level problem resolution by interacting with relevant engineers and product managers, utilising appropriate methods and decide when approximations make sense.
- Conduct data visualisation to present data, findings and techniques to audiences, both technical and nontechnical in a pictorial or graphical format so it can be easily analyzed utilising principles of visually encoding data and communicating information.
- Maintain ownership of models through regular audits and updates to ensure relevance.
- Plan and perform regular model updates that capture evolving business complexity in current models.
- Challenge current models to ensure relevance and accuracy of outputs.
- Test outputs and accuracy of models to ensure relevance.
- Use data and analytic insights to provide input into improving customer experience through a better understa

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