Data Scientist

Recruiter:

Hutech Head Office

Job Ref:

PTA009276/LvdM

Date posted:

Friday, August 26, 2022

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

Salary:

R 80k â R 100+ k Per Month

JOB SUMMARY:
A leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talented Data Scientist to join their team in Cape Town.

This is an opportunity for a smart, creative, hard-working person with integrity to join a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company. They offer a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position: Data Scientist
Industry: Online Shopping
Sector: Retail
Location: Century City, Cape Town
Salary: R 80k – R 100+ k Per Month

Introduction
A leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talented Data Scientist to join their team in Cape Town.

This is an opportunity for a smart, creative, hard-working person with integrity to join a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company. They offer a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

Your responsibilities will include:

Working on uplift modelling and forecasting key metrics.
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 Engineering teams to deploy and maintain relevant models in our production environment, ensuring Engineering best practices are adhered to.
Communicate opportunities and solutions effectively to relevant stakeholders, from Software Engineers to Business Executives.
Collaborate and share knowledge with the analytics teams across the company.

Attributes required:

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, Big Query, APIs, Excel/Google Sheets.
Good communications skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
Eager to learn and stay up to date with industry trends.
Creative problem-solving skills.
Strong prioritization skills.
Ability to build good practical solutions quickly with iteration rather than big-bang perfect solutions.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science or similar.
Master’s Degree in Data Science, Advanced Analytics or similar highly beneficial.
3-5 years’ experience in Data Science or Analytics roles.
Experience deploying models into production environments is beneficial.
Experience in Retail industry is beneficial.
Experience in Marketing analytics is beneficial.

The Environment:

Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e- commerce company in Africa.
We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
We are short on ego and high on output.
We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

is forthright but respectful.
is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute.
is analytical, able to use data to make decisions.
is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours.
is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience.
is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster.
is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input.
is curious and challenge the status quo.
is innovative and enjoys iteration.
is collaborative.
will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts.
thinks like an owner of the business.
is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

To apply please send your CV to:

Closing date: 12 September 2022

Should you not hear from us within 14 days after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Contact:
Nick Els
Technical Recruitment
E-mail:
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