Data Scientist - 06 Month contract (Subject to Renewal)

SUMMARY:
Data Scientist

POSITION INFO:

Purpose of the Position:

• Develop actionable insights that can be consumed by the business for commercial impact.
• Perform advanced data analysis by applying varied and appropriate analytics and modelling techniques that are fit for purpose.
• Identify, curate and wrangle data sources for analysis purposes.

Key Performance Objectives:

Tasks:

Stakeholder Management

• Work with data and analytics squads to identify relevant data sources to perform meaningful customer analytics 
• Work closely with the business execution teams to ensure insights make business and financial sense
• Work collaboratively with various teams to ensure effective delivery of the departmental goals based on analysis results

Operational

• Provide innovative ways to support the implementation and effective execution of the strategy
• Assist with development and delivery of business cases
• Use data and advanced statistical methods to generate new business insights
• Cross-reference and correlate results with supporting material
• Ensure model results are explainable
• Develop, train, test, implement, update and maintain analytical models
• Source and prepare data for analysis and modelling purposes
• Develop dashboards for business consumption and interaction of results
• Implement tracking mechanisms to measure business impact of action taken against results and insights provided

Compliance

• Ensure solutions adhere to MultiChoice patterns, guidelines and standards
• Operate within project environments and participate in continuous improvement efforts

Delivery Management

• Follow and participate in defined ways of work including but not limited to sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, demos and PI planning

Qualifications

• Degree in Business and Quantitative field (Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or Similar)
• Post Grad Advantageous

Experience

• A minimum of 3 - 5 years of relevant data science experience
• Application of statistical, mathematical, predictive modelling and forecasting techniques
• Experience in building and implementation of Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms to solve meaningful business problems
• Preparation and presentation of findings to senior management
• Facilitation of discussion and interpretation of results to deepen business understanding

Technical Competencies

• Azure Machine Learning Services
• Azure Auto ML
• Azure Data Lake including parquet files
• Databricks including DeltaLake
• PowerBI
• Python
• PySpark
• SQL

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