Senior Data Scientist - Predictive Modeling & Insights

Boardroom Appointments; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks a data scientist to work closely with the business and partners to analyse customer behaviour patterns and generate insights for future decisions. The role focuses on building/maintaining databases in PostgreSQL (RDS) with potential R modelling; SQL Server experience is desirable but not required.

The candidate should hold a strong academic background in statistics or related fields and have programming experience. A Bachelor's degree is required.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background in statistics or related fields.
• Experience in data analysis and modelling is required.
• Proficiency with R and familiarity with SQL databases is expected.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates data sets to ensure cleanliness, relevance, and applicability.
• Supports modelling of data using advanced statistical methods.
• Maintains understanding of solutions, problems, and outputs.
• Establishes relationships with end-users and operational teams; develops data mining techniques.
• Builds dashboards to visualize structured and semi-structured data.
• Plans and implements predictive models using R and/or other tools.
• Data collection and pre-processing.
• Create prediction models.
• ML training.
• Mapping brand data.
• Model selection and tuning.
• Model deployment and monitoring.

Skills

Statistics background

Programming experience

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field

Tools

R programming

SQL Server

PostgreSQL (RDS)

Job description

Boardroom Appointments seeks a data scientist to work closely with the business and partners to analyse customer behaviour patterns and generate insights for future decisions. The role focuses on building/maintaining databases in PostgreSQL (RDS) with potential R modelling; SQL Server experience is desirable but not required.

The candidate should hold a strong academic background in statistics or related fields and have programming experience. A Bachelor's degree is required.