Snr Specialist: Lead Data Scientist

8 hours ago

Centurion, South Africa Praesignis (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Responsibilities**:

- Define and implement the AI strategy and product roadmap in relation to the company strategy, and provide input into the broader strategic direction of Organization Strategic Insights
- Cultivate and manage working relationships with a variety of stakeholders to support the design and delivery of data science projects and solutions
- Develop business cases for new solutions or products, and establish the value for existing projects
- Determine the most appropriate data science tools/ approaches for specific projects
- Execute end to end data science projects and product development processes
- Engage with our data engineering team to ensure any AI products or solutions are managed
- Identify and manage resource requirements including people and systems
- Lead and develop a team of data scientists and provide hands on guidance
- Establish, document and champion data science best practices in the team
- Help Strategic Insights become thought leaders in the areas of data science and artificial intelligence
- Stay abreast of new developments and solutions in the market to ensure we don''t fall behind
- Contribute to our agile way of work and our innovation culture
- Consistent documentation of all implemented systems and processes
**Qualifications**
- Post graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field (NQF level 7); OR a qualified Actuary with data science experience. A Master''s degree (NQF level 9) will be an advantage.
**Required Certification/Professional Registration**
- Data science and cloud certifications will be advantageous (GCP, Azure, AWS).
**Experience**
- 7 years of work experience in the field of data science with at least 2 years having been on management/ specialist level. Experience in ICT. Telecommunications will be an advantage.
**Special Requirements**
- Experience in Natural Language Processing. Strong statistical & mathematical foundations. Experience with Google Cloud Platform. Expected to stay abreast of new data science developments and to put them into practice.
**Functional Knowledge**
- Statistical and mathematical foundations; Data science and analytics frameworks (NLP and Computer Vision); Programming (Python, R, Git, Linux); Cloud computing (GCP preferable); Big Data (Cloudera, Hadoop, Spark).
**Functional Skills**
- Strategic thinking; Innovative thinking; Communication (written and verbal); Stakeholder management; Planning & organizing (Miro, Confluence & Jira); Research & development.
**Attitudes/ Leadership Competencies**
- Business Leadership; Market Leadership; Personal Leadership; Problem solver; Takes initiative; Hard working; Can do attitude; Innovative thinker; Works well in teams; Works well under pressure; Relishes dynamic/ changing environment; Time management.

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