Data Scientist – Sandton (Hybrid role) - R1.1m per annum cost to company

 

Recruiter:

E-Merge

Job Ref:

PP55883

Date posted:

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

1 100 000


JOB SUMMARY:
Data Scientist – Sandton (Hybrid role) - R1.1m per annum cost to company

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Are you currently in a Data Science space and have the ability to use statistics, analyse complex data, simplify it, and present it more easily for others?

Can you analyse Large Data sets? Can you implement, optimise and Reduce?

You must be able to create data regression models!

If this sounds like you, then you should apply now!

The successful incumbent will be responsible to develop prototypes and proof of concepts for data science solutions.

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 4 years’ experience in Data Science role
  • Experience with R, Python, Matlab is required
  • Experience in programming in C# or C++, Java.
  • Experience working with large scale data etc.
  • Experience With Cloud Data Engineering Technologies Is Advantageous
  • Implement complex data projects
  • Modelling and visualising large sets of data using multiple platforms (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, Arena)
  • Solve big data problems and develop big data solutions
  • Distributed machine learning deployment
  • Data Mining
  • Data Warehousing
  • Financial modelling and analytics
  • Research and analytics
  • Strategy planning and execution

Qualifications

  • Degree/ Honours / PHD In Computer Science, Statistics, Or Operations Research
  • Data Engineering Certifications Such as Python, Microsoft, Aws, Hadoop, Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure Advantageous.

Reference Number for this position is PP55883 which is a Permanent position based in Sandton offering a cost to company salary of R1.1m pa negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Prinuchka on -merge.co.za or call her on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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