Data Scientist

Boardroom Appointments; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm in Randburg is looking for a skilled data scientist to analyze customer behavior and provide insights to aid business decisions. The ideal candidate should hold a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, with over 5 years of experience in statistical analysis and machine learning. Proficiency in R programming and familiarity with SQL Server are valuable. Responsibilities include data evaluation, modeling, and building dashboards to visualize results. This position offers an opportunity to impact future business strategies significantly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in statistical analysis and/or machine learning.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in data science with R programming and Java.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and statistics.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate data sets to ensure cleanliness and relevance.
• Support data modeling with advanced statistical methods.
• Build dashboards to visualize data.
• Implement predictive models using R programming.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

Data modeling

R programming

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field

Job description

As a data scientist, you'll work closely with the business and our partners to analyse and understand patterns in customer behaviour. You will identify new insights that can be used by the business for future decisions, both big and small. You may find yourself using your skills to solve specific problems or offer support where others cannot. The ideal candidate should have a strong academic background in statistics or related fields such as mathematics, computer science or engineering (with some programming experience). A good knowledge of R would be beneficial but not essential. Experience working with SQL Server is desirable but not required as this role is primarily focused on building/maintaining databases within PostgreSQL (RDS) systems.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Evaluates the data sets to make sure it is clean, relevant, and applicable to the project
• Supports the modelling of the data sets with advanced statistical methods
• Maintains a comprehensive understanding of the solutions, the problem being solved, and the outputs
• Establishes and maintains relationships with end-users, business analysts, and operational team members. Develops, implements, and tests new data mining techniques
• Builds dashboards to visualize structured and semi-structured data
• Plans and implements modern predictive models using R programming language and/or other
• Data collection and pre-processing
• Create Prediction model
• ML training
• Mapping brand data
• Model selection and tuning
• Model deployment and monitoring

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field required
• At least 5 years of experience in the statistical analysis of data and/or machine learning required
• A minimum of two years of experience in data science and/or machine learning, including R programming and Java
• Strong understanding of data modeling and statistics
• Experience with machine learning and/or artificial intelligence technologies a plus