Data Scientist – Investment & Short Term Insurance – Johannesburg – R550k to R750k per annum

SUMMARY:
Data Scientist – Investment & Short Term Insurance – Johannesburg – R550k to R750k per annum

POSITION INFO:

Join a financial services company as a Data Scientist transforming vast financial and short‑term insurance datasets into actionable insights for portfolio managers, analysts, and risk teams. You’ll build predictive models, automate due‑diligence workflows, and surface performance drivers—spanning traditional market data and insurer‑specific metrics such as claims frequency, loss ratios, and solvency capital requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Design ML / quant models for manager selection, risk attribution, alpha forecasting, and factor analysis—incorporating short‑term insurance KPIs (e.g., combined ratio, reserve adequacy).
• Build scalable pipelines (Python, SQL, Spark/Dask) that ingest, cleanse, and enrich multi‑manager and insurance data.
• Codify due‑diligence, performance‑benchmarking, and insurer‑health monitoring into reproducible frameworks.
• Deliver real‑time dashboards and APIs highlighting manager alpha and insurance‑portfolio risk exposure.
• Partner with PMs, analysts, risk, and actuarial teams to translate business problems into data‑driven solutions.
• Mentor junior analysts; promote best practices in ML‑Ops and model governance.
• Stay current on AI/ML trends across investments and InsurTech; pilot relevant techniques (e.g., telematics‑driven claims prediction, catastrophe risk modeling).
• Contribute to our cloud‑first stack (Azure / AWS, Databricks, Snowflake)

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Data Science, Stats, Comp Sci, Math, or Financial Engineering
• 5–7 yrs hands on data science experience (finance preferred)
• Strong Python & SQL; expertise in ML libraries (Scikit learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow/PyTor
• Proven track record deploying models to production (CI/CD, monitoring, retraining)
• Cloud & big data know how (Azure / AWS, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake)

The Reference Number for this position is NG60433 which is a Permanent Hybrid role offering a salary of R550k up to R750k per annum salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on nokuthulag@ e-Merge.co.za or call her for a chat on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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