SNR SPECIALIST: LEAD DATA SCIENTIST

Recruiter:

Platinum Engineering Recruitment Specialists

Job Ref:

SNR SPECIALIST: LEAD..

Date posted:

Friday, September 17, 2021

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

Salary:

Rem and benefits: Potential bonus of 20% and potential shares of 15%; telephone rebate; work cell and data contract, car insurance, funeral policy.

SUMMARY:
A LARGE COMPANY REQUIRES YOUR EXPERTISE

POSITION INFO:

CORE DESCRIPTION

Responsible to execute the strategic roadmap and create value through delivery of internal and external artificial intelligence solutions and products. Oversight of a portfolio of data science projects, providing strategic and technical guidance on solving a variety of use cases across the Group and for its customers. Develop machine learning and deep learning competencies and manage and develop a ''full-stack'' team of data science specialists. The role''s focus will be on NLP, bothtext and speech, but projects can span Computer Vision and other domains.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

- Define and implement the AI strategy and product roadmap in relation to the TKG strategy, and provide input into thebroader strategic direction of Strategic Insights

- Cultivate and manage working relationships with a variety of stakeholders to support the design and delivery of data scienceprojects and solutions

- Develop business cases for new solutions or products, and establish the value for existing projects

- Determine the most appropriate data science tools/ approaches for specific projects

- Execute end to end data science projects and product development processes

- Engage with our data engineering team to ensure any AI products or solutions are managed

- Identify and manage resource requirements including people and systems

- Lead and develop a team of data scientists and provide hands on guidance

- Establish, document and champion data science best practices in the team

- Help Strategic Insights become thought leaders in the areas of data science and artificial intelligence

- Stay abreast of new developments and solutions in the market to ensure we don''t fall behind

- Contribute to our agile way of work and our innovation culture

- Consistent documentation of all implemented systems and processes

CORE COMPETENCIES

FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Statistical and mathematical foundations; Data science and analytics frameworks (NLP and Computer Vision); Programming (Python, R, Git, Linux); Cloud computing (GCP preferable); Big Data (Cloudera, Hadoop, Spark)

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

Strategic thinking; Innovative thinking; Communication (written and verbal); Stakeholder management; Planning & organizing (Miro, Confluence & Jira); Research & development

ATTITUDES/ LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

Business Leadership; Market Leadership; Personal Leadership; Problem solver; Takes initiative; Hard working; Can do attitude; Innovative thinker; Works well in teams; Works well under pressure; Relishesdynamic/ changing environment; Time management

MINIMUM PERSON REQUIREMENTS

REQUIRED CERTIFICATION/PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

Data science and cloud certifications will be advantageous (GCP, Azure, AWS).

QUALIFICATIONS

Post graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field (NQF level 7); OR a qualified Actuary with data science experience. A Master''s degree (NQF level 9) will be an advantage

EXPERIENCE

7 years of work experience in the field of data science with at least 2 years having been on management/ specialist level. Experience in ICT/ Telecommunications will be an advantage.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Experience in Natural Language Processing. Strongstatistical & mathematicalfoundations.Experience withGoogle Cloud Platform.

Expected to stay abreast of new data science developments and to put them into practice.

You will work from CENTURION - PRETORIA AND CAPE TOWN

KEYSTAKEHOLDERS(INTERNAL/EXTERNAL)

KEY DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY

KEY METRICS

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