Senior Data Scientist

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Blue Label Telecoms Full time

**About company**

BluNova is a subsidiary of Blue Label Telecoms responsible for drawing value from its large heterogeneous corpus of data originating from multiple companies within the Blue Label group. With this data, we identify opportunities in the market and develop sustainable solutions to exploit these opportunities. We leverage scalable cloud technologies to deploy our solutions, with a strong emphasis on automation. Most of our data analysis is performed in a distributed spark environment, where we have leg room to spin up large clusters exceeding thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM when needed.

**Job Purpose**

Responsible for delivering solutions to business with insight from understanding needs and analysing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. This role is intended to help shape strategies, guide decisions making and provide solutions that meet specific business needs and goals.

**Responsibilities**

**Strategy and Continuous Improvement**
- Staying up to date with, and where appropriate driving, influencing and facilitating adoption the best in class technologies and techniques for statistical analysis, modelling and decisioning across the team and broader business and in relation to projects that may be underway.
- Leading the roll out of Big Data capabilities, consumer initiatives, analytics frameworks, decisioning solutions and best practices within the business
- Researching, designing, implementing, and deploying full-stack scalable data analytics and machine learning solutions to resolve various business issues.
- Builds and maintains a large-scale analytics infrastructure to be used across the business
- Consistently conducts research, design, implementation, and validation of cutting-edge algorithms to analyse extensive data sources that are available and
- build solutions which enable desired business outcomes on diverse fronts
- Architects and implements data management systems of analytic frameworks for the business’s data
- Support BluNova’s Management in formulating new, creative and effective ways of leveraging the business’s vast data store and capabilities set to both resolve existing business solutions and develop new business opportunities
- Develops, implements and maintains state-of-the-art algorithms for object detection, segmentation, classification, and recognition
- Ensures all team members are mentored and upskilled in line with all developments made in the Data Science space to enable a chain of continuous capability development through the team, and seamless handover of capabilities between team members as and when required

**Data Gathering**
- Motivate for and support sourcing of new data and/or features of data that may be required to deliver against requests or requirements that may be presented
- Work with stakeholders throughout the organisation to identify opportunities for sourcing company data which may facilitate solutions delivery.
- Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques and ensure that they are appropriately integrated with data pipelines, data structures and features produces
- Ensure that new data sourced or implemented in the environment does not negatively impact existing data products, and if there are changes, that those are appropriately managed through the environment
- Understand the breadth of BluNova’s data sets and engage in interactive data exploration and data-driven storytelling

**Data Modelling**
- Develop custom data models and algorithms that enables delivery of solutions, and which are best fit for purpose within the context of the solution
- Collaborate with data engineer(s) and/or software developer(s) to scope, monitor and maintain the analytics environment to, enable data modelling, exploration, mining at scale and productionisation thereof
- Architect data structures and feature sets that (1) facilitate diverse and detailed analysis (2) enable large scale processing and (3) manage data sensitivity
- Prepare data sets for business intelligence and data mining which are fit for purpose
- Version control data transformations.
- Script data transformations for data engineers to include in pipeline
- Use modelling to optimise solution development, decisioning and customer experience

**Data Science**
- Work with stakeholders throughout the organisation to understand business models, value drivers, needs and the context in order to identify opportunities for leveraging BluNova’s data to develop, communicate and deliver business solutions
- Coaches and supports the BluNova team members and stakeholders to enable appropriate solution development, socialisation, buy-in and deployment
- Ongoing data exploration to identify opportunities, limitations and gaps in the data
- Prepare analytical datasets to visualise value drivers against various metrics
- Mine and analyse data from available data to drive optimisation and improvement of product development, deplo

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