Principal Specialist: Advanced Analytics

2 weeks ago


Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**Role purpose**:
Lead a team of data scientists onshore and offshore, consult with CVM Leads to inform data science services and products project deliverables and build analytics models. Demonstrate a strong problem-solving ability, a knack for statistical analysis buttressed with business acumen to support the Vodacom Business CVM teams with analytical solutions, machine learning models that is surfaced to VB customers through capability development. The incumbent will represents the business stakeholders and is the voice of the customer guiding Scrum/DevOps teams, and responsible for ensuring that the delivery team delivers value to the business according to the outcome vision.

**Your responsibilities will include**:
Define the Growth strategy and ensure growth journeys and requirements are captured for all new products and features
Develop key predictive models and products and manage a team of Data Scientists to execute against Vodacom Business CVM demand plans.
Engage with senior stakeholders across the business to advise and solve complex problems, being seen as the local technical expert.
Acts as the principal technical data science expert in the CVM Team and identifying opportunities to make a commercial difference and leads the development of analytics initiatives to meet business requirements.
Translates complex datasets into strategic insights for the business and communicates simply to non-technical audiences, visualising results, to create understanding and solution buy-in.
Develops analytics products to solve real business problems, taking account of user needs and technology and operational landscape.
Identifies new analytics trends and opportunities to drive the innovation agenda in the Vodacom Business CVM Team.
Own, drive, and focus the Scrum Team on delivery of customer and business value
Develop and define user stories / items and acceptance criteria from the feature and capability roadmap defined by CVM Leads (Product Managers)
Rank and prioritize user stories/items and add them to the team backlog for sprint development, conveying a clear vision of what is required to be built
Participate in retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
Acts as a single point of business contact for the Scrum/DevOps teams
Constantly monitor and report on ROI that models and capability are providing to VB

Master’s or Bachelor’s (or equivalent) in quantitative fields like Engineering, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Computational/Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, computationally proficient in statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. R, Python SciPy and NLTK, Spark MLlib)
Familiar with implementing data transformations and algorithms in common programming languages
Strong communication skills with prior experience communicating analytics results to senior management
Proficient in statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. R, Python SciPy and NLTK, Spark MLlib, SAS)

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:
Significant experience in Big Data analytics & deployment of models and algorithms from large volumes of structured and/or unstructured data in a commercial /consumer environment.
Ability to test hypotheses from raw data sets, draw meaningful conclusions, and effectively communicate results verbally, in writing, and through effective visualization.
Strong knowledge of Big Data technology (e.g. Hadoop MR, interactive SQL on Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark, R, SAS, SciPy, Tableau, GIS).
Deep and broad statistical modelling expertise in various domains
Ability to work cross functional teams to translate business issues into potential analytics solution.

Closing date for Applications**:26 July 2023.**

The base location for this role is** Midrand, Vodacom Campus.**

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.



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