Head of Data Science
at HR TALENT PARTNER
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 17 Jul, 2024 | Not Specified | 18 Apr, 2024 | 5 year(s) or above | Computer Science,Technology,Nlp,Sql,Reporting,Data Science,Versioning,Python,Statistics,Evaluations,Documentation | No | No |
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Description:
JOB OVERVIEW
- Date Posted: Posted 2 days ago
- Location: Cape Town, Western Cape
- Job Title: Head of Data Science
- Education Level: Bachelors Degree
- Job Level: Senior
- Minimum Experience: 5- 7 Years
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE POSITION AVAILABLE IN CAPE TOWN.
A renowned international messaging company is looking for a “Head of Data Science” to join their team on a full-time permanent basis in either Cape Town or Bryanston, Johannesburg.
Excellent compensation package on offer (subject to background and experience) plus internal career advancement opportunities.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Advanced degree in data science, statistics, computer science, or similar.
- Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders’ executives and convert these requirements to data and modelling outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of Python or other common processing languages
- Experience with data feature engineering from multiple and large transactional datasets.
- Competent in machine learning principles and techniques.
- MLOps experience would be advantageous.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- A strong background in running large scale databases (1Tb+ data); Ideally Clickhouse/Kafka but at least Postgres/MySQL with hundreds of billions of rows.
- Strongly skilled in SQL including new and platform-specific features such as CTEs, array unnesting etc.
- Strong experience of optimising database query performance – how different types of indexes work and their underlying performance characteristics (bloom filter, n-gram, b-tree, hash etc).
- Strong knowledge of Python or other common data processing languages at scale. Especially the difference required in program structure between analysing 1 million data points and 1 billion data points.
- Proven experience of building good quality and highly performant ML models, for example using technology like catboost.
- We use grafana internally for reporting, so knowledge of this is a plus.
- Understanding best-practises for structuring, versioning and labelling of database schemata
- Experience of NLP is also a bonus and may be focus for us in the future as we build out chat-bots and other forms of conversational technology.
- A love of writing tests – unit, functional, end-to-end, smoke, …
- Proven ability and interest in picking up new technologies quickly, leading evaluations and providing suggestions of key technologies to base future development around.
- Good problem-solving ability, especially under pressure.
- A passion to lead and mentor more junior developers/data scientists.
- An ability to explain and articulate technical detail clearly to technical management and systems teams.
- A passion for writing documentation and training other staff.
- Devops experience, alongside administering and automating Linux-based platforms would be a big bonus.
Responsibilities:
Please refer the Job description for details
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:5.0Max:7.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Computer Science, Statistics
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa