Data Scientist – Unstructured Data & ML for Finance

Standard Bank Group

Roodepoort

On-site

ZAR 600,000 - 900,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Adopting Practical Approaches

Articulating Information

Challenging Ideas

Checking Things

Examining Information

Exploring Possibilities

Interacting with People

Interpreting Data

Producing Output

Providing Insights

Team Working

Data Analysis

Database Administration

Data Integrity

Knowledge Classification

Research & Information Gathering

Job summary

Standard Bank Group in Roodepoort, Gauteng, seeks an experienced data analytics professional to apply advanced data mining and statistical analysis to large datasets. You will model business problems, derive insights, and collaborate with clients, data and technology teams to turn data into information for sound decisions.

A background in information studies or IT is preferred, with 3–4 years in data analytics and familiarity with Power BI/Tableau.

Qualifications

Experience with unstructured data (e.g. streams, images).
Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data.
Using data mining to discover new patterns from large datasets.
Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc.
Experience with data visualization tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
Experience in building models (credit scoring, propensity models, churn).

Responsibilities

Apply data mining and statistical analysis to large structured and unstructured datasets.
Model business problems, uncover insights and opportunities to support decisions.
Collaborate with clients, data and technology teams to turn data into critical information.