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Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

wePlaceCape Town, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Purpose Statement

  • To deliver the AI strategy to ensure the Bank can compete in a changing landscape where data science is a key future-oriented strategic differentiator.
  • To design and implement predictive models or intelligent algorithms to better understand the drivers of business performance and enable improved management decision-making.
  • Minimum Education : Honours Degree in Data Science
  • Ideal / preferred Education : Masters Degree in Data Scienc

Minimum Experience

  • Length of experience required is conditional on the qualifications obtained
  • Masters degree or equivalent in a quantitative discipline or STEM field e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science with focus on Machine Learning, plus 6yrs relevant experience or equivalent
  • Honours Degree or equivalent and relevant technical qualifications, plus 8yrs relevant experience.
  • Experience in data science, machine learning and deployment of developed solutions
  • Business analysis and requirements gathering
  • Reproducible coding experience
  • Working with relational and non-relational databases
  • Experience in at least one ML language
  • Working in cloud environments

    • Ideal Experience

  • Working with multiple teams to deliver predictive models into a production environment
  • Stakeholder management at Executive and senior management level

    • Minimum Knowledge

  • Deep understanding of state of the art and emerging principles and techniques in at least one discipline of data science, e.g., NLP, Deep Learning etc. and can teach to a broad and wide technical audience.
  • Underlying theory and application of machine learning models; able to understand underlying principles and theory and be able to teach others.
  • Familiarity with modern deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc). Best practices for data science. Ethical AI design principles

    • Skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Attention to Detail
  • Communications Skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
  • Planning, organising and coordination skill

    • Additional Information

  • Clear criminal and credit record

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