Data Scientist
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Remote work: | Some remote work allowed |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #NG58496 |
| Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
A publicly listed organisation well known for its excellent service delivery, diverse company offerings, and customer focused services at the core of its business is currently on a quest to upgrade their technology environment in this pursuit they are in need of a passionate data scientist ready to design, prototype, and build next-generation analytic engines and services by applying strong expertise in machine learning, data mining and conducting information retrieval within a new environment.
Job requirements:- Understand and interpret business requirements and translate them into analytical reporting solutions.
- Develop actuarial / statistical models to enable data driven decision making.
- Identify appropriate models / algorithms to mine large datasets and develop rich insights into member behaviour.
- Employ advanced data analytics and machine learning techniques to detect fraudulent activity.
- Identify key trends and interact with business to understand the impact of these trends and identify possible courses of action to mitigate / take advantage of the trends identified.
- A solid understanding of relational databases and data flows between systems.
- Ability to create dashboards, reports and data visualisation.
Qualification and experience- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or similar
- Five + years’ experience in a data science role
- Machine learning experience across multiple projects/ doing different types of projects / working on out-of-the ordinary problems
- History of end-to-end project involvement
- Proven history of innovation, delivering and problem solving
- Strong Python experience
- Short-term insurance/financial experience beneficial
- AWS experience beneficial
- SAS experience is beneficial
The reference number for this position is
NG58496 which is a
permanent remote position based in
Johannesburg offering a cost to company from
R600,000 up to R800,000 per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at
az.oc.egreme@galuhtukon or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.
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Posted on 13 May 10:43, Closing date 12 Jul
