Behavioral Data Scientist Graduate: Impact Analytics

Discovery Limited; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovery Health is seeking a motivated Digital and DHCS Data Scientist Graduate to help apply data science to health analytics across the Health App, HealthID, and Discovery Health Care Services. You will work with large datasets and cross-functional teams to uncover patterns in member behaviour and inform strategy.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in data science or a related field and familiarity with Python, R, or SQL. Knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science or related field
• Basic experience in Python, R or SQL

Responsibilities

• Apply real data science to real-world impact within the Digital team, across the Health App, HealthID, and Discovery Health Care Services to leverage large-scale behavioural and transactional data.
• Engage in journey analytics, segmentation, experimentation, and predictive modelling to inform strategy and data-driven decisions.

Skills

Basic statistics

Data cleaning and manipulation

Database knowledge

Data visualization

Understanding of machine learning bas

Model evaluation concepts

Data preparation and data engineering

Supervised learning

Unsupervised learning

Natural language processing

Generative AI

LLMs

Structured problem-solving

Logical thinking

Attention to detail

Translate business questions into分析

Present insights clearly

Basic stakeholder engagement skills

Business communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science or related field

Honors/Masters

Tools

Power BI/Tableau

Job description

Discovery Health is seeking a motivated Digital and DHCS Data Scientist Graduate to help apply data science to health analytics across the Health App, HealthID, and Discovery Health Care Services. You will work with large datasets and cross-functional teams to uncover patterns in member behaviour and inform strategy.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in data science or a related field and familiarity with Python, R, or SQL. Knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is advantageous.