Remote Senior Data Scientist - ML & Insight Architect

Placements24; Mtubatuba Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible schedule

Remote work

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Remote Senior Data Scientist specializing in Machine Learning. You will develop, deploy, and refine ML models to solve real business problems while driving data-driven insights.

The role requires a strong statistical and ML foundation, plus excellent communication with cross-functional teams. You will mentor junior data scientists, collaborate with engineers and product teams, and stay ahead of ML research to guide strategic data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field with strong ML foundation.
• Proven experience building and deploying ML models at scale.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and deploy advanced ML models for business challenges.
• Perform exploratory data analysis to uncover trends and insights.
• Design experiments to test hypotheses and validate models.
• Clean and preprocess large datasets for model training.
• Evaluate and compare ML algorithms and techniques.
• Collaborate with engineers to productionize models.
• Communicate findings with clear visualizations to stakeholders.
• Stay updated on ML research and industry advancements.
• Mentor junior data scientists and share knowledge.
• Identify opportunities where data science adds value.

Skills

Python

R

Machine Learning

Spark

Data Visualization

Communication

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Stats/Math

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly skilled Remote Senior Data Scientist specializing in Machine Learning. You will develop, deploy, and refine ML models to solve real business problems while driving data-driven insights.

The role requires a strong statistical and ML foundation, plus excellent communication with cross-functional teams. You will mentor junior data scientists, collaborate with engineers and product teams, and stay ahead of ML research to guide strategic data initiatives.