Independent Data Mining Specialist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa PMC Consultants Full time

**Data mining Specialist**

**Responsibilities**
- Gathering and cleaning data from multiple sources.
- Responsible for searching, qualifying and generating new sales leads to support the Sales Team. Generation of new sales leads via direct customer engagement including targeted web search in e-commerce websites and social media.
- Qualification of sales leads to identify whether their research goals are aligned with sales requirements
- Hands-on experience in Internet browsing and Web research.
- Provide quality assurance of imported data
- Should have knowledge of finding data from various portals, Websites, and directories.
- Identifying opportunities for new products or services based on market research trends
- Developing models using statistics, mathematics, and computer science principles to extract information from large data sets
- Customizing reports to stakeholders based on findings from data analysis projects
- Identifying new sources of data to explore based on findings from previous projects

**Formal Education & Certification**
- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in computer science.
- Experience working with Google Analytics is a plus
- Knowledge of statistical tools like R, SAS, SPSS or Excel Add ins (Data Analysis/Solver) or similar is a plus
- Proficient in SQL with the ability to write queries

**Knowledge & Experience**
- Strong understanding of data mining models, structures, theories, principles, and practices.
- Excellent knowledge of data modeling tools
- Ability to analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations.
- Work experience as a data analyst or in a related field.
- Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms.
- High-level experience in methodologies and processes for managing large-scale databases.
- Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases.
- Understanding of addressing and metadata standards.
- High-level written and verbal communication skills
- Strong familiarity with data preparation, processing, classification, and forecasting.
- Direct experience with data management techniques.
- Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
- Project management experience.
- Quick to understand the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.

**Data Miner Skills**
- Data analysis
- Database management
- Machine learning
- Business intelligence
- Domain expertise

**Engagement Conditions**
- On-call availability
- Target driven
- Constant data quality assessment
- Sitting for extended periods of time**.**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months
Part-time hours: 10 per week

**Salary**: R400.00 - R2,000.00 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Johannesburg, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Diploma (required)

**Experience**:

- data mining: 1 year (required)


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