Data Scientist

Recruiter:

Moving Heads Personnel CC

Job Ref:

Data Sc

Date posted:

Friday, March 26, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

300 000 pa

SUMMARY:
Data Scientist

POSITION INFO:

Data Scientist/Computer Science Sandton


Minimum Experience: Maximum 2 years'' experience.

Qualification:
Computer Science degree with second year Maths OR

Actuarial Science graduates looking to branch out to Computer Science/Programming.

Contract Type:
12 months

Outputs

Duties and responsibilities

Enterprise Job

Collaborate with Actuarial, Product, Operations and Finance to provide exceptional data science solutions to appropriate business problems.
Provide specialist advice on solutions to complex data problems.
Maintain and Improve existing data science solutions to clients.
Build data and technology solutions to complex financial problems.
Analyse data using standard data tools such as SQL, Excel, QlikView, Power and Python.
Design and build machine learning models to solve business problems.
Provide support and resolve queries on existing data science solutions.

COMPETENCIES

Ability to develop efficient computer code (algorithms) to solve business problems.
Understanding of principles of algorithm design.
Understanding of computational complexity theory.
Understanding of database design principles.
Understanding of machine learning
Understanding of big data cloud solutions such as AWS, Google Cloud etc.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to engage with senior executive stakeholders with confidence and professionalism.
Goal-oriented and excellent problem-solving skills
Ability to balance efficiency and effectiveness
Data Analysis Skills such as excel pivot tables, graphs, SQL etc.
Great team player with honesty and integrity.

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