DATA SCIENTIST (MUST HAVE A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS/STATISTICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE OR SIMILAR) -- (AA/EE) CAPE TOWN

 

Recruiter:

MH Solutions

Job Ref:

CT001631/MH

Date posted:

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Location:

Capetown, South Africa


SUMMARY:
DATA SCIENTIST

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities will include:

 

  • Identify opportunities where data science methods will significantly improve performance in areas such as forecasting, promotions planning, scenario modelling, pricing, replenishment, and assortment planning, amongst others.
  • Plan, prioritise and manage a roadmap of work that maximises value-add with limited time
  • Develop solutions according to the roadmap using appropriate methods, depending on the problem
  • Measure, report and continuously improve model performance
  • Work closely with the Analytics team to brainstorm, identify opportunities and guide the roadmap
  • Work closely with the BI team to produce consolidated, transformed data sets, where appropriate
  • Work closely with the Software Engineering and Machine Learning teams to deploy and maintain relevant models in production environment, ensuring Engineering best practices are adhered to

 

Qualifications and experience:

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science or Similar
  • Master’s degree in Data Science, Advanced Analytics or similar highly beneficial
  • 3-6 years’ experience in Data Science or Analytics role
  • Exposure to Software Engineering is essential
  • Experience deploying models into production environments is beneficial
  • Experience in retail industry is beneficial
  • Strong business acumen
  • Proficient with advanced methods for regression, optimisation, classification, and unsupervised learning problems
  • Proficient at modelling algorithms in either R or Python
  • Proficient at gathering and wrangling big data sets from various sources including SQL, databases, cloud services, APIs, Excel/Google Sheets
  • Good communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

PLEASE FORWARD YOUR UPDATED CV (MS WORD FORMAT) & CURRENT SALARY STRUCTURE TO wilene@------

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please deem your application is unsuccessful.



 

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