Senior Data Scientist — Hybrid Cape Town | AWS & Snowflake

Network Finance; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Finance seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that address complex business challenges in Cape Town. You will lead end-to-end analytics initiatives, mentor juniors, and collaborate with Data Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes building scalable solutions on AWS and Snowflake, creating Power BI dashboards, and ensuring data quality and governance while advancing the company's data strategy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Science, Advanced Analytics, ML, or related field.
• Hands-on with AWS services (S3, Redshift, SageMaker, Lambda, Glue) and Snowflake.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Power BI.
• Experience building/deploying predictive, classification, clustering, and forecasting models.
• Strong data engineering knowledge, data pipelines, and large-scale processing.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into analytical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and business partnering skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy ML models to solve business challenges.
• Build scalable data science solutions leveraging AWS and Snowflake platforms.
• Develop and maintain advanced analytics, predictive models, and forecasting solutions.
• Create dashboards and visualisations using Power BI.
• Perform data exploration, feature engineering, model tuning, and performance optimisation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders.
• Ensure governance, data quality, and documentation; mentor junior team members.

Skills

AWS

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Power BI

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science/CS/Statistics/Engineering

Postgraduate qualification

Tools

MLOps frameworks

Job description

Network Finance seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that address complex business challenges in Cape Town. You will lead end-to-end analytics initiatives, mentor juniors, and collaborate with Data Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes building scalable solutions on AWS and Snowflake, creating Power BI dashboards, and ensuring data quality and governance while advancing the company's data strategy.