Data Science Manager at Barclays Africa Group Limited

Job description

Data Science Manager

We seek a Data Science Manager to create and deliver business-oriented insights while identifying problems and opportunities to the benefit of our internal clients. In this role you will design and drive the integration and application of analytical model results with your Business partners ensuring that the end benefits are realized. The overall function of the Data Scientist role is to frame and solve business problems, and give clients insights to pursue business opportunities through a data-centric approach.

The role is within Portfolio Analytics & Reporting.

Role

The role of Data Science Manager will be composed of three key accountabilities

Frame Problem/Opportunity and Capture Data

• Build and maintain strong relationships with the business and IT to develop an understanding of business strategy and objectives, identifying the implications to define the data modeling goals for designated project areas
• Lead the data acquisition, data mining, and overall project management duties related to one or more existing analytics project areas
• Partner with Business to identify inefficiencies and potential root causes
• Design, develop and establish the relevant frameworks, models and business practices to drive the data-centric approach to understanding current business problems and strategy, with the provision of input into solutions
  

Analytics and Data Modelling

• Meet with Business Unit Representatives to identify, interpret and document/review business requirements and needs aligned to the strategic direction of the organisation
• Understand business concerns or problems both strategic and operational and map and translate business problems into trackable analytical problems, relaying results
• in common business language with managerial implications
• Analyse data across multiple systems and multiple formats and provide analytics and information that provide integrated views necessary to assist with business concerns
• Perform formal quality assessment of requirements with business and project manager where applicable
• Develop and analyze analytical data sets across multiple sources of data, creating meaningful visualizations and design and implement creative approaches to predictive modeling problems
• Design, develop and run model assessments, validation, enhancement activities and balancing procedures to ensure integrity of data
• Partner with IT to effectively migrate analytical models from prototype to production
• Design and drive integration and application of analytical model results with business partners, ensuring benefits realised
  

Communication

• Ensure that all data analytics and design are communicated in a business related manner ensuring a constant link between how data inputs and outputs affect business strategy and outcomes.

Knowledge & Skills

• Hadoop; Java, Python, SQL; Hive and pig Skills

• Knowledge of Data Mining, Machine Learning and text analysis
• Knowledge of Excel, SAS, Matlab
• Statistical Knowledge/Skill (Correlation, multivariate regression etc.)
• Communication and Presentations skills (Create story around data)

• Flare; HighCharts; Amcharts; Google Visualization; APU Tableu Skills.

Education And Experience Required

• BSc Computer Science or B.Com Informatics (Post Grad Preferable)

• 4 Years Technical Experience in Data Mapping, Modelling etc.

• Experience in EB Programming in HTML; CSS or JavaScript