Senior Data Scientist: Production ML for FinTech(Cape Town)

Acuity Consultants; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1,100,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Consultants is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in Cape Town to join a hybrid team. You will drive end-to-end data science work—from problem framing and data exploration to building, validating and productionising models that deliver measurable business value.

You’ll collaborate with product, operations and finance to turn data into better decisions and ensure models perform in real-world conditions. Strong Python, SQL and production ML experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in Data Science or analytics.
• Strong Python for analysis and modelling.
• Experience deploying models to production and monitoring.
• Solid statistical and analytical skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate business questions into analytical problems.
• Develop, validate and productionise ML models.
• Monitor model performance and drift in production.
• Collaborate with data engineers and analytics engineers.
• Ensure reproducibility, testing and documentation.

Skills

Python expertise

SQL proficiency

Production ML

Model monitoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

MLflow

Docker

Job description

Acuity Consultants is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in Cape Town to join a hybrid team. You will drive end-to-end data science work—from problem framing and data exploration to building, validating and productionising models that deliver measurable business value.

You’ll collaborate with product, operations and finance to turn data into better decisions and ensure models perform in real-world conditions. Strong Python, SQL and production ML experience are essential.