Data Scientist

 

Recruiter:

Communicate Recruitment: IT 2

Job Ref:

SS000847/Lala

Date posted:

Monday, January 3, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

700 000 Annually


JOB SUMMARY:
One of the biggest networks providing company in South Africa is looking for a dedicated data scientist to join their innovative team.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Description:

  • The role requires an individual who will undertake situation-analysis, utilizing systems thinking and root-cause analysis techniques to diagnose current state, identify key business drivers and causality, develop conceptual analytics frameworks, with analytical components.

Education:

BSc Computer Science / Degree in Information Technology

Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in data science/ data mining/ data stats
  • Exposure in SQL, Base SAS, MatLab, SPSS
  • Support Vector Machines (SVM)
  • Linear Regression modelling
  • Logistic Regression modelling
  • Multi-Nomial Logistic Regression
  • Survival Analysis – Cox Proportional Hazard, and Kaplan Meier Limit Estimator
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Skills:

  • SAS
  • Apache Spark
  • Excel
  • RapidMiner
  • KNIME
  • QlikView

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