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Job Details

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Cape Town (South Africa)

Skale: 50

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

As a Data Scientist on our Global Data Science and Innovation team, you will play a critical role in developing advanced analytical solutions that drive our organisational growth. Your work will involve collaborating with colleagues to implement cutting-edge AI/ML projects, directly impacting our ability to scale and maintain industry-leading standards.

You will fit into our team by working closely with software engineers, product delivery teams, and customer success colleagues to ensure seamless integration of our solutions. This role not only requires technical expertise but also flexibility and strong collaboration skills to represent our innovative initiatives to both internal and external stakeholders

Job Goals
- Develop and integrate new features to enhance functionality in our products and models for internal and external users.
- Champion best practices in software development within the team.
- Write comprehensive tests and documentation to ensure reliability.
- Create and maintain efficient pipelines and infrastructure for seamless deployment.
- Deploy models into production, ensuring their stability and performance.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to achieve cohesive organisational goals.
- Share insights and innovative solutions within the AI/ML domain through cross-team collaboration.
- Research new methodologies, techniques, and algorithms to keep our products as the best in class in the market.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities
- Proficiency in coding languages such as R and Python.
- Experience with manipulation and maintenance of databases (e.g. SQL).
- Ability to work effectively in global setups with diverse cross-geography teams and cultures.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to balance big-picture thinking with meticulousness.
- Energetic, self-driven, curious, and entrepreneurial mindset.
- Experience in developing and maintaining live products is desirable but not required.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like Azure, knowledge of Git, and containerisation tools (e.g. Docker) are a plus.

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What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Global Data Science and Innovation team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. We’re undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernising all our tech systems, we can respond our clients' needs faster and more efficiently - and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

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Location

Cape Town, Jetty StreetSouth Africa

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.