Hybrid Senior Data Scientist for Financial Analytics & ML

Placements24; Stellenbosch; Hybride; ZAR 1 000 000 - 1 800 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary package

Performance bonuses

Medical and retirement benefits

Professional development including_con

Conferences and advanced training

Résumé du poste

Placements24 seeks a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Financial Analytics in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. You will leverage advanced ML and big data to derive actionable insights for product development, risk management, and customer insights.

You will mentor juniors, design production-ready models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a flexible hybrid work setup that blends in-office collaboration with remote work.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field.
• 5+ years of data science experience with financial analytics.
• Proficiency in Python or R and libraries like pandas or scikit-learn.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with distributed data platforms (Spark/Hadoop).
• Experience deploying models to production and experimenting design.

Responsabilités

• Develop ML models for forecasting, fraud detection, credit scoring and customer segmentation.
• Analyze large financial datasets using advanced statistics and data mining.
• Design A/B tests and experiments to evaluate model impact.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to define analytics projects.
• Build data pipelines and infrastructure for efficient processing and analysis.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to team growth.
• Stay updated on advances in data science and financial analytics.
• Ensure ethical use of data in analyses.
• Contribute to data-driven strategies across the organization.

Connaissances

Data science expertise

5+ years experience

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Model deployment

Formation

Master's or PhD in Data Science/Statistics/CS/Math/Economics

Outils

Python

R

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Pandas

SQL

Spark

Hadoop

AWS/Azure/GCP

Description du poste

Placements24 seeks a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Financial Analytics in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. You will leverage advanced ML and big data to derive actionable insights for product development, risk management, and customer insights.

You will mentor juniors, design production-ready models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a flexible hybrid work setup that blends in-office collaboration with remote work.