Data Scientist

 

Recruiter:

Cyberpro Consulting

Job Ref:

JHB003857/YM

Date posted:

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

500


SUMMARY:
CyberPro Consulting combines a Passion for Technology with a Genuine Interest in our customer's Business and Success. With almost two decades of experience in the IT and software development industry, CyberPro Consulting has a diverse client base, ranging from large-scale enterprises to SME businesses.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are currently seeking a Senior Data Scientist with the following skillset to join our team:

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Be the link between business colleagues and technical colleagues within the Data Solutions team
  • This requires gathering requirements from business and refining this into measurable and actionable deliverables for the team
  • Effectively communicate these deliverables to the respective team members and provide the necessary guidance to ensure delivery to the high standards expected from business
  • Collaborate and work closely with cross-functional business partners to identify gaps and structure problems/solutions
  • Support key initiatives and deliver results through an Agile workflow
  • Will create meaningful presentations and analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights, not just data
  • Synthesize methodology and data into actionable business strategy, and communicate findings to product, engineering and management teams
  • Contribute to data and technology initiatives as they relate to data science
  • Familiarity with the Big Data stack (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc.) as well as experience with using these tools to develop and deploy data products and applications
  • Support data science colleagues in working with technology infrastructure colleagues to ensure a productive analytical and development environment
  • Beneficial, experience with building ML products in the Cloud (preferably using Amazon Web Services).
  • Be an evangelist for Big Data and pattern recognition technologies
  • Support & share knowledge and best practices with the analytical, technical and business community
  • Contribute to the team vision of how to use Big Data to build long-term value

Role/Person Specification
Education and Experience Required 
  • BSc, BCom, BEng, BBusSc or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification
  • Degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or engineering.
  • Understanding and experience applying machine learning methods is essential
  • Understanding and experience using Big Data technologies essential
Knowledge & Skills 
  • Coding/software development skills. Strong mathematical and statistical skills.
  • Knowledge of information technology environments, administration, policies and processes.
  • Working knowledge of financial and management accounting is desirable
  • Scala (preferred), Python (pySpark), Java (as a precursor to learning Scala) including the key numerical, analytical and machine learning libraries/packages

Please send your CV to Yonela (yonela ) or call for a confidential discussion about this opportunity.

Please consider your application to be unsuccessful if you have not received feedback within 10-business days

 

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