Remote Senior Data Scientist: ML Leader & Strategist

Placements24; Upington; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Learning & development

Flexible work-life balance

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join a remote-first analytics team. You will build and deploy advanced ML models, perform rigorous statistical analyses, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations for clients worldwide.

You will mentor junior data scientists, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape the company’s data science strategy in a fully remote environment.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in a quantitative field is required.
• Minimum 5 years of data science experience with ML focus.
• Proven production ML model development and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy ML models for business problems.
• Perform EDA, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
• Preprocess large datasets and ensure data quality.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy into production.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior data scientists and analysts.
• Stay current with AI/ML research and best practices.
• Contribute to data science standards and processes.
• Identify opportunities for data-driven product innovation.

Skills

Machine learning

Statistical modeling

Python

R

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Pandas

SQL

NoSQL

Spark

Hadoop

Data storytelling

Remote collaboration

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science/Statistics/CS/Mathematics

Tools

Python

R

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

pandas

SQL

NoSQL

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join a remote-first analytics team. You will build and deploy advanced ML models, perform rigorous statistical analyses, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations for clients worldwide.

You will mentor junior data scientists, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape the company’s data science strategy in a fully remote environment.