1595 data Scientist

2 weeks ago


Pretoria, South Africa JorDan Human Resources Full time

2024-04-09 - 2024-05-07
- Permanent
- JHB009218
- IT- Gauteng, Tshwane (Pretoria)
- 1595_**Data Engineer / Scientist (Advanced)**
**Location: Gauteng**
**Contract Term: 1 June 2024 - 31 December 2026**

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS**:
Strong background in mathematics and good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) charter
**Languages**
Python, Terraform
**Scripting Languages**
SQL
**Machine Learning**
Python, SKLearn, R, OpenAI
**Cloud**
AWS, EC2, S3, EMR, Azure
**Operating System**
Windows, Linux and Unix
**BI/DWH/ETL Tools**
Qlik, AWS Quicksight
**DBMS / RDBMS**
Postgres, AWS RDS
**IDEs**
VSCode, Pycharm, Jupiter Notebooks, Microsoft Visual Studio
**Version Control**
SVN, Git
**Tools**
ATC Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitHub CoPilot

**ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS**:

- Problem solving capabilities
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work interdependently as well as independently and submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users
- Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation
- Strong presentation skills
- Above-board work ethics
- Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project
- Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required
- Willing and able to travel internationally

**WHICH QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE DO WE NEED FOR THE ROLE?**
- Strong background in mathematics and good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- 3 - 5 years of experience in the field of Data Science

**WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES?**
- Develop data science solutions and integrate and scale these solutions into MLOps pipelines
- Implements analytical algorithms for object detection, segmentation, classification, and recognition
- Provide support on Low code, no code solutions for business teams
- Evaluate LLM output and compare LLM configurations.
- Managing the expectations of business product owners, and ensuring that healthy synergy exists between the business and feature team.
- The planning of epics and sprints, and ensuring that business needs are accurately translated into technical tasks for a feature team to execute.
- Is responsible for discovering insights and identifying business opportunities using algorithmic, statistical, and mining techniques
- Interprets the results of statistical and predictive experiments and regression analysis and integrates this into complex business processes
- Analyses the data and build reports by using data visualisation tools such as Qlik and AWS Quicksight
- For more information please contact:

- Chantelle Tree


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