Data Engineer (Cape Town)

SUMMARY:
Data Engineer (Cape Town)

POSITION INFO:

• Working with their departments throughout the organisation to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Analyse and query data from company databases to drive optimisation and improvement of product development.
• Pull data for on a daily basis on request.
• Assist with capturing external data operating their crawlers and provide quality assurance on all real-time reports and boards that they operate on.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data-gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimise their customers journey and experience, revenue generation, and other business outcomes.
• Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality.
• Coordinate with different departments to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.

• Tertiary degree in Finance.
• Full proficiency in SQL.
• Experience in PHP.
• Skilled in mathematics and not afraid of the Linux command line.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
• Experience using statistical computer languages such as PHP to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Experience working with and creating data architectures.
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across departments.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• 3-5 years of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models.
• A degree or higher qualification in: Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field, and is familiar with coding knowledge and experience with PHP and vuejs.

• R50 000 – R60 000 per month.

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