Intermediate Data Scientist – South Africa

Join the home of the #changeables as an intermediate data scientist implementing designs for the shapeshifters and delivery of products and services. You will be expected to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, under guidance against predicted results and deliver according to set processes and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to write complex SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and analyse data from relational databases efficiently.
• Strong analytical mindset with the capability to derive actionable insights from large datasets, identifying trends, patterns, and anomalies.
• Experience in providing analytical insights to support operational decision-making processes, including but not limited to forecasting, optimisation, and performance monitoring.
• Proficiency in data manipulation techniques using coding languages like SQL, Python or R, including data cleaning, transformation, and feature engineering.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey complex analytical findings to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to tackle complex business problems using data-driven approaches, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation

Qualifications and experience:

• Have a degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or similar
• 4-6 years of experience as a Data Scientist
• Experience in SQL, SAS and Power BI
• Have experience with scorecards
• Have experience with stakeholder engagement
• Experience with reporting

The Reference Number for this position is NG59257 which is a Permanent, Hybrid position based in Johannesburg offering a salary of R700,000 up to R900,000 per annum, salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on az.oc.egrem-e@galuhtukon or call her for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 04 Jun 21:05, Closing date 3 Aug