Data Scientist: Build & Deploy Impactful Models

Agile Bridge; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Agile Bridge is seeking a Data Scientist who can move confidently from messy data and ambiguous business questions to reliable models, clear insight and measurable value. This is not a reporting-only role: you will build, evaluate and explain statistical and machine learning solutions, then work with engineering teams to prepare successful models for operational use.

You will own the model's scientific validity and interpretation while collaborating with Data Engineers, AI Engineers and Platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a data-related field; 3–5 years of ML experience.
• 3–5 years' experience developing and evaluating statistical or ML solutions.
• Strong Python and SQL capability.
• Solid knowledge of statistics, experimental design, feature engineering, model evaluation and data visualisation.
• Evidence that you can write reproducible code and communicate analytical trade-offs clearly.
• Judgement to choose appropriate methods, including simpler solutions when suitable.

Responsibilities

• Frame business problems as testable analytical or predictive questions with clear success criteria.
• Prepare and explore structured and unstructured data, resolve quality issues, and engineer features.
• Develop statistical and ML models using supervised or unsupervised techniques.
• Design rigorous validation approaches and evaluate performance, robustness, bias and explainability.
• Translate findings into clear recommendations, visualisations and narrative for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, AI Engineering and Platform teams to prepare validated models for production use.
• Monitor model performance and recalibration or retraining as needed.
• Explore LLM and RAG approaches where they genuinely improve workflows or decision support.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Feature engineering

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Honours or Master's degree (advantageous)

Tools

Pandas

Polars

scikit-learn

Git

Plotly

Job description

Agile Bridge is seeking a Data Scientist who can move confidently from messy data and ambiguous business questions to reliable models, clear insight and measurable value. This is not a reporting-only role: you will build, evaluate and explain statistical and machine learning solutions, then work with engineering teams to prepare successful models for operational use.

You will own the model's scientific validity and interpretation while collaborating with Data Engineers, AI Engineers and Platform