Data Scientist
Johannesburg, ZA
Nedbank
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Career Stream
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Job Purpose
Contribute to the design and prototyping of analytic engines and services with a foundational understanding of machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval concepts
Job Responsibilities
- Develop statistical models and algorithms through the use of libraries and abstractions
- Conducts explority data analysis
- Create value out of various datasets
- Provide insights to BI and BA to further exploit and present their models.
- Apply advanced analytical techniques such as machine learning and artificial intelligence in order to derive business value.
- Conduct data discovery for inclusion in models.
- Proficiency in a programming toolset (for e.g, Python, R) for data manipulation and basic data analysis tasks.
- Grow in knoweldge of latest tools and techniques with guidance from senior team members.
- Able to query and pre-process (wrangle/munge) data.
- Collaborates with senior data scientists/analysts/engineers to implement and deploy scalable solutions.
- Implement and maintain ML models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization.
- Conduct self-development through researching best practices, conducting experiments, and collaborating with industry leaders.
- Monitor and maintain models in production and re-train if necessary.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
- Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
- Participate and support positive team culture in achievement of business strategy.
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
Job Responsibilities Continue
People Specification
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification
STEM Qualification
Engineering Qualification,
Computer Science,
Econometrics,
Mathematical Statistics,
Actuary Science
Masters or Doctorate will be an added advantage
Essential Certifications
Preferred Certifications
Cloud (Azure, AWS), DEVOPS or Data engineering certification. Any Data Science certification will be an added advantage, Coursera, Udemy, SAS Data Scientist certification, Microsoft Data Scientist.
Minimum Experience Level
• MS/PhD in STEM or related technical discipline
• 1-3 years’ experience in a statistical and/or data science role
• Cursory knowledge of machine learning, statistics, optimization or related field
• Experience with R, Python, Matlab is required, programming in C, C++, Java
• Experience working with large data sets, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, Arena, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work in cross functional teams
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, agile start-up like environment.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Data Mining
- Data analysis
- data/ data structures
- Presentation Skills
- Problem solving skills
- programming
- Supervised Learning
- Unsupervised Learning
- NLP
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Visualisation
- Feature Engineering/Selection
- HyperParameter Tuning
- Research and analytics
- Continous Learning
- AI Ethics and Fairness
Behavioural Competencies
- Planning and Organizing
- Collaborating
- Continuous Improvement
- Innovation
- Leveraging Feedback
- Applied Learning
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile AWS Azure Classification Computer Science Data analysis Data Mining DevOps Econometrics Engineering Feature engineering Hadoop Java Machine Learning Matlab ML models NLP PhD Prototyping Python R Research SAS Spark Statistics STEM Unsupervised Learning
Perks/benefits: Career development Startup environment
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