Data Scientist

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa SUMMIT Africa Recruitment Full time

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand, refine and document requirements
- Build, refine and optimise models for use in operational processes
- Self-manage to deliver on project deadlines
- Identify and source relevant data from internal and external sources
- Analyse, clean and transform data
- Engineer data features
- Test analytical models
- Select the most appropriate analytical models for the requirement
- Generate data visualizations and document findings
- Present the findings to stakeholders (including non-technical stakeholders)
- Provide production support for existing solutions
- Remain current with the latest data science tools and techniques

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Postgraduate degree (Masters / PhD) in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, computer engineering, economics, or related technical discipline
- Strong academic performance
- Excellent understanding of data analytic techniques
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Strategic and creative thinker
- Highly detail oriented
- Persuasive and influential
- Exhibit natural curiosity to figure out how things work
- Excellent development and software engineering skills
- Experience working with various programming languages i.e. Python, R, SQL, Matlab, Java, C+
- At least 3 years’ experience working on data science initiatives
- Above average presentation and report writing skills
- Strong communication skills - able to explain complex concepts in layman’s terms
- Good interpersonal skills, show resilience and can work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way
- Ability to work individually and with teams
- Adaptable and comfortable working in an experimental environment
- Experience within the FinTech and /or Financial Services industries preferable
- Experience with machine learning techniques preferable

**SKILLS MATRIX TO COVER**
- Software / Programming - studied and minimum of 3-5 years experience
- Modelling / Statistical techniques - studied and minimum of 3-5 years experience
- **Exposure and experience in credit risk environments - minimum of 3 years experience**:

- Customer Insights - minimum 1-3 years experience


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