Senior Data Scientist

Location:	Johannesburg
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#NG59258
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

Join the home of the #changeables as a senior data scientist implementing designs for the shapeshifters and delivery of products and services. You will be expected to build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights.

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
• Five-plus 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 NG59258 which is a Permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a salary of R900k up to 1.1m 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.

Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT recruitment is a niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right people with the right companies, in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge IT website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.

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Posted on 04 Jun 21:03, Closing date 3 Aug