Senior Data Scientist

Recruiter:

wePlace

Job Ref:

JHB000856/AS

Date posted:

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:
An industry leading Bank has an exciting opportunity available for Senior Data Scientist to join their team.

POSITION INFO:
Purpose Statement

To deliver the AI strategy to ensure the Bank can compete in a changing landscape where data science is a key future-oriented strategic differentiator.
To design and implement predictive models or intelligent algorithms to better understand the drivers of business performance and enable improved management decision-making.

Minimum Education: Honours Degree in Data Science
Ideal/preferred Education: Masters Degree in Data Scienc

Minimum Experience

Length of experience required is conditional on the qualifications obtained
Master’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative discipline or STEM field e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science with focus on Machine Learning, plus 6yrs relevant experience or equivalent
Honours Degree or equivalent and relevant technical qualifications, plus 8yrs relevant experience.
Experience in data science, machine learning and deployment of developed solutions
Business analysis and requirements gathering
Reproducible coding experience
Working with relational and non-relational databases
Experience in at least one ML language
Working in cloud environments

Ideal Experience

Working with multiple teams to deliver predictive models into a production environment
Stakeholder management at Executive and senior management level

Minimum Knowledge

Deep understanding of state of the art and emerging principles and techniques in at least one discipline of data science, e.g., NLP, Deep Learning etc. and can teach to a broad and wide technical audience.
Underlying theory and application of machine learning models; able to understand underlying principles and theory and be able to teach others.
Familiarity with modern deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc). Best practices for data science. Ethical AI design principles

Skills

Analytical Skills
Attention to Detail
Communications Skills
Problem solving skills
Decision making skills
Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
Planning, organising and coordination skill

Additional Information

Clear criminal and credit record

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