Data Scientist

7 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa BASHR Consulting Full time

**Job Details**:
**Department**

**IT**

**Minimum experience**

**Associate**

**Company primary industry**

**Information Technology and Services**

**Job functional area**

**Information Technology**

**Salary**

**R864 000 - R960 000 per annum**

**Position: Data Scientist**

Our client in the IT sector has availed a Data Scientist role in Cape Town. As a Data Scientist your main responsibilities will include using data mining techniques to uncover new insights into the way customers interact with products.

**The role will include**:

- Working closely with engineers and designers to ensure existing customer data is being asked the appropriate questions, and proposing solutions for effective decision making after identifying any issues
- Assist with the development and execution of the Information Technology Strategy
- Build algorithms and design experiments to merge, manage, interrogate, and extract data to supply tailored reports to colleagues, customers, or the wider organization
- Test data mining models to select the most appropriate ones for use on a project
- Create clear reports that tell compelling stories about how customers or clients work with the business

**Requirements**:

- A Bachelor’s degree, Master’s or PHD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field, with Computer science Data science/computer and data science Engineering Mathematics and operational research Physics Statistics as degree modules
- 8 years of relevant technology and management experience
- 5-7 years of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models
- Experience using statistical computer languages and strong problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc. and their advantages/drawbacks in real-life
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams
- Knowledge and experience in statistical and data mining techniques and querying databases
- Experience using web services and statistical computer languages
- Experience with distributed data/computing tools and analyzing data from 3rd party providers
- Experience in visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders and working with and creating data architectures

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