High Salary: Data Scientist

4 days ago

Pretoria, South Africa Jobted ZA C2 Full time

The Data Scientist works under the guidance of the Technology team and will be responsible for analyzing large amounts of raw information (particularly unstructured text data) to find patterns, build models to address business problems, and present information using various data visualization techniques and platforms.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

- Applying statistics, machine learning, and analytical approaches to solve business problems, turning the companys volumes of big data into valuable and actionable insights.
- Collaborating with Management to understand business and information needs.
- Building predictive models and machine-learning algorithms to answer critical business questions.
- Where applicable, undertaking data mining and developing and documenting robust and scalable data extraction tools.
- Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns and perform forecasts through intelligent models.
- Collaborate with the Data Visualization Team to Interpret and deliver the results of the findings, by visualization techniques, building data science apps, or narrating interesting stories about the solutions to the business as well as clients.
- Collaborate with the Senior Management, Data Visualization, and Production teams to improve data governance processes, data quality, and other data management services.
- Provide a high standard of customer service to all internal, and external customers and work partners.
- Market research, as well as internal and external networks, to produce meaningful information to be shared and used in the organization.
- Continuous research to develop and implement new ideas and improved methods, systems, and work processes which lead to higher quality, better results at the same or reduced cost.
- Keep abreast of new advanced analytical techniques which can be applied to your everyday role to improve your impact on the business.
- Prep and validate data by writing SQL code.
- Select and implement appropriate data visualisation formats.
- Assist with mapping and documentation of requirements.

Advantageous:

- Programming experience with a relevant language such as Python

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE & QUALIFICATIONS

- Hold a relevant qualification (e.g., BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Actuarial Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Statistics). Candidates without a Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems qualification must have some software/data engineering experience.
- Exceptional communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- Solid theoretical predictive modelling, mathematical and statistical skills.
- Proficient in SQL.
- 5+ years of experience across the data science workflow will be advantageous.
- Highly analytical with strong maths and statistics skills.
- Experience using business intelligence tools and data frameworks, such as Power BI.
- Business process mapping abilities.
- Understanding of machine learning and operations research.
- Knowledge of R and Python
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data.

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