Data Scientist (Marketing and Natural Language Processing)

South African Local Government AssociationZA

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Job title : Data Scientist (Marketing and Natural Language Processing)

Job Location : South Africa,

Deadline : November 18, 2025

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ROLE OVERVIEW

Reporting to the Senior Data Architect, the incumbent will be responsible for the application of data science and advanced quantitative methods, which include machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics to enable key strategic, tactical, and operational use-cases within the domain of marketing, communications, strategy, and Natural Language Processing - as per SALGA Digital Strategic Framework. Responsible for the end-to-end data Lifecyle – from strategic planning, data collection, through monitoring, evaluation, and incremental improvement.

THE CANDIDATE PROFILE

Strong project management and organizational skills.

Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Database configuration and management

Data visualisation

Data analysis

Predictive analytics

Agile

Exposure to financial services and / or fast retail / FMCG

Business acumen

Culture fit : SALGA desires an individual who will share and buy-in, in our core values, mission and vision, demonstrating commitment to our ethos beyond just doing the job

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Relevant Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics , Econometrics, Actuarial Science or equivalent at NQF 7

5 year’s experience data science and analysis experience

Proficient in Python and database technologies

Valid Driver’s License;

KEY PORTFOLIO AND PERFORMANCE FOCUS AREAS

Support the Chief Digital Officer and Senior Data Architect using a variety of state-of-the-art cloud based technologies to solve data analysis and prediction problems.

Identify and act on new opportunities for data driven business in data science and analytics.

Recognise when existing solutions can be generalised to solve new problems and address new data-as-a-service verticals

Work in a collaborative environment developing data science methods, tools, and algorithms to solve problems.

Become fluent in analytical modelling using SALGA’s internal data modelling platforms and tool;

Continuously learn and apply latest and fit-for-purpose, open-source and proprietary tools and technologies to achieve results, including some or all of the following :

Cloud

Microsoft Azure (must)

AWS

Google Cloud

Big Data

Mondodb

Hadoop

Cassandra

Machine Learning

Kubeflow

Tensorflow

PyTorch

Business Intelligence / Analytics and visualisation

Microsoft PowerBi (must)

Microsoft Excel (must)

Google Analytics (must)

Adobe Analytics (must)

Google Charts

NLTK (must)

Textblob

SpaCy

CoreNLP

Datorama (advantage)

Languages

Python (must)

R (must)

SQL (must)

Conversational AI

Dialogflow

Teneo

Bot Framework / Bot Builder SDK (ideal)

Watson Assistant

Associated tools and technologies as they become available, and the platform evolves

Load and merge data originating from diverse sources.

Performa data cleansing, and quality management.

Pre-process and Transform data for model building and analysis.

Troubleshoot data quality issues and work with team members to reach solutions

Perform descriptive analytics to discover trend and pattern in the data;

Create visualizations, including dashboards to provide insights on large data sets and input to finished reports

Develop predictive models for business solutions.

Deploy predictive and other models to production.

Build and train NLP models

Analyse output products to assure data quality and conformance to requirements.

Develop technical specification for 3rd party platform data integration and streaming

Participate in continuous improvement efforts to increase available data quality and speed of delivery

Address ad-hoc domain-specific data analytic requirements from domain or cluster leaders; and a continuously deliver user-centric

data visualisations, publications, and products

Deadline : 18th November,2025

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