Senior Data Scientist — ML & Predictive Analytics

Placements24; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonuses

Stock options

Medical aid and retirement fund

Annual leave

Professional development budget

Relocation assistance

Conferences attendance

Job summary

Placements24 in Sandton, Gauteng seeks a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist with a strong focus on machine learning to join their analytics team. You will build predictive models, develop data-driven strategies, and drive business insights to improve customer experience and efficiency.

You will lead end-to-end ML projects, mentor juniors, collaborate with data engineers, and stay at the forefront of AI innovations while presenting clear recommendations to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field and strong ML focus.
• Experience crafting end-to-end ML solutions and deployments.
• Proficiency in Python or R with data visualization ability.
• Experience with big data tools and SQL; effective communicator.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and deploy ML models for analytics and insights.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis and feature engineering.
• Design data pipelines to support model training.
• Evaluate models with metrics and iterate for improvement.
• Translate findings into actionable business recommendations.
• Collaborate with data engineers to productionize models.
• Stay updated on ML/AI developments and mentor juniors.
• Communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Design and run experiments to validate model impact.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

R

SQL

Data Visualization

Spark

Hadoop

Communication

Mentorship

Education

Masters or PhD in Statistics, CS, Math, Physics

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Pandas

NumPy

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Placements24 in Sandton, Gauteng seeks a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist with a strong focus on machine learning to join their analytics team. You will build predictive models, develop data-driven strategies, and drive business insights to improve customer experience and efficiency.

You will lead end-to-end ML projects, mentor juniors, collaborate with data engineers, and stay at the forefront of AI innovations while presenting clear recommendations to stakeholders.