Data Scientist
at PBT Group
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 23 Jan, 2025 | Not Specified | 25 Oct, 2024 | N/A | Written Communication,Models,Analytical Solutions,Change Management,Hadoop,Spark,Statistics,A/B Testing,Optimization,Coding Experience,Python,Machine Learning,Applied Mathematics,Actuarial Science,Data Science,Hive | No | No |
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Description:
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and deploy complex machine learning and Generative AI models and algorithms that drive analytical solutions across organization
- Collaborate with translators and understand business problems to implement scalable and sustainable solutions
- Coordinate with business intelligence, Digital Specialists and Data Engineers to deliver holistic analytics solutions
- Supports translators in communicating the design, operation and output of the analytics models/solutions developed
- Ensures appropriate analysis and regular solution maintenance testing over time
Technical skills:
- Postgraduate degree in Mathematical Statistics/Data Science, Actuarial Science or Applied Mathematics or related technical discipline (Economics/Engineering/Computer Science acceptable with majors / research in statistics / data science); masters degree is an advantage
- 3+ years’ experience in a statistical and/or data science role; executing ML-driven analytics use cases E2E (data, ML models, change management, execution and monitoring) is a big advantage
- Must have experience in machine learning, statistics, optimization, or related fields
- Must understand key ML concepts such as ML model training and evaluation, boosting models, bias-variance trade-off, feature engineering, clustering approaches, A/B testing, leakage
- Programming / coding experience is necessary; specific experience in Python is a plus
- Experience working with large data sets, simulation/optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc.) is a plus
Other skills:
- Business intuition:understand links between available data schema, modeling choices and business considerations
- Open to work in agile environments with multiple stakeholders
- Professional and service orientation attitude; team player
- Good verbal and written communication
- Quickly learn business needs and translate them into possible analytical solutions
- Strong work ethic; ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus
- Able to build a sense of trust and relationship that creates a comfortable and effective workplace
- Attitude to thrive in an accelerated environment
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and deploy complex machine learning and Generative AI models and algorithms that drive analytical solutions across organization
- Collaborate with translators and understand business problems to implement scalable and sustainable solutions
- Coordinate with business intelligence, Digital Specialists and Data Engineers to deliver holistic analytics solutions
- Supports translators in communicating the design, operation and output of the analytics models/solutions developed
- Ensures appropriate analysis and regular solution maintenance testing over tim
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Statistics data science masters degree is an advantage
Proficient
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa