Senior Data Scientist

4 days ago

Durban, South Africa Games Global Full time

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who is passionate about automation, creating reports as well as alerts for our Monitoring Solutions team within our Game Intelligence department. This is a highly multi-skilled team who is passionate about data and adding value to the wider business. If you are looking for your next challenge and enjoy big data then this could be the role for you

**Responsibilities**

**Gather Data and Build Datasets**
- work with various sources to create an accurate dataset fit to answer relevant questions
- ensure integrity, consistency and understanding of underlying data
- wherever possible, work to automate the collection, cleaning and manipulation of data to reduce future effort

**Perform Analysis of Data To Answer Business Questions**
- ensure thorough understanding of the highest priority business questions
- actively investigate trends and anomalies that can add business value
- use analytical and critical thinking to understand the patterns in the underlying data
- use this understanding to recommend business actions

**Build Reports and Models to satisfy business requirements**
- create clean reports and data visualisations to effectively communicate information from data
- ensure reports are accurate, and designed to answer the respective business questions
- build advanced statistical or ML models to understand underlying correlations and trends
- build advanced models to forecast future behaviour or results
- automate reports and distribute effectively to spread the value to relevant parts of the business
- integrate with existing data systems to productionize predictive models
- optimize algorithms to enhance their potential value
- develop custom programs to address unique data science/ analytics problems and deploy Big Data solutions on large scale data sets in the enterprise
- setting up and deploying the latest big data tools, design a solution that encapsulates systems dealing with both structured data and unstructured data and capture and evaluate results in a big data setting
- deploy big data solutions on large scale data sets in the enterprise and develop custom programs to address unique data science/analytics problems

**Project Management**
- manage moderate-scale projects and assist in management of large-scale or multi-stage projects
- work with stakeholders and collect business requirements for Data Science projects including establishing the business need, key stakeholders, scope, resourcing and success criteria for a specific issue
- prepare project plans, communicate the plan to the team and allocate the tasks
- Post graduate qualification in quantitative field like statistics, applied math, physics, engineering, computer science or related field
- 5 to 7 years’ applicable experience
- Expert statistical skills
- Expert analytical skills
- Advanced experience with SQL, R/Python (statistical programming), Tableau/PowerBI (data visualization), Spark/Hadoop (big data processing technologies)
- Advanced experience with statistical or machine-learning modelling
- Advanced domain understanding
- Advanced understanding of our system architecture
- Intermediate experience leading projects and mentoring others
- Problem solving involving critical & analytical thinking, creativity & innovation

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