Senior Data Scientist
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To deliver the AI strategy to ensure the Bank can compete in a changing landscape where data science is a key future-oriented strategic differentiator.
- To design and implement predictive models or intelligent algorithms to better understand the drivers of business performance and enable improved management decision-making.
- Minimum Education: Honours Degree in Data Science
- Ideal/preferred Education: Masters Degree in Data Scienc
- Length of experience required is conditional on the qualifications obtained
- Master’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative discipline or STEM field e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science with focus on Machine Learning, plus 6yrs relevant experience or equivalent
- Honours Degree or equivalent and relevant technical qualifications, plus 8yrs relevant experience.
- Experience in data science, machine learning and deployment of developed solutions
- Business analysis and requirements gathering
- Reproducible coding experience
- Working with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience in at least one ML language
- Working in cloud environments
- Working with multiple teams to deliver predictive models into a production environment
- Stakeholder management at Executive and senior management level
- Deep understanding of state of the art and emerging principles and techniques in at least one discipline of data science, e.g., NLP, Deep Learning etc. and can teach to a broad and wide technical audience.
- Underlying theory and application of machine learning models; able to understand underlying principles and theory and be able to teach others.
- Familiarity with modern deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc). Best practices for data science. Ethical AI design principles
- Analytical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Communications Skills
- Problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
- Planning, organising and coordination skill
- Clear criminal and credit record