Behavioural Data Scientist Graduate at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• We’re looking for analytically curious graduates eager to apply real data science to real-world impact within the Digital team, working across the Health App, HealthID, and Discovery Health Care Services businesses to leverage large-scale behavioral and transactional data and uncover meaningful patterns in member behavior. From journey analytics and segmentation to experimentation and predictive modelling, we use advanced analytics to inform strategy, data-driven decision-making and insights into customer, product and department behavior.
• You’ll work with rich data sets, modern tools, and cross-functional teams to solve complex problems — translating data into measurable outcomes. If you’re excited by messy data, human behavior, and building models that influence decisions at scale, this is where you start.

Competencies:

Techniques

• Basic statistics (regression, hypothesis testing)
• Data cleaning and manipulation
• Database knowledge (relational vs dimensional) (advantageous)
• Data visualization (dashboarding, reports) (advantageous)

Data Science Fundamentals

• Understanding of machine learning basics
• Model evaluation concepts
• Data preparation and data engineering fundamentals
• Supervised learning, unsupervised learning, natural language processing
• Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLM’s) (advantageous)

Analytical Skills

• Structured problem-solving
• Logical thinking
• Attention to detail

Business & Communication

• Translate business questions into analysis
• Present insights clearly
• Basic stakeholder engagement skills

Behavioural Attributes

• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Team player
• Accountability and ownership
• Self-starter
• Autonomous
• Ambitious
• Adaptability
• Quick learner

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Actuarial Science, Engineering: (Industrial/Aeronautical/Mechanical, Statistics, Computer Science or Related Data Analytics Degree)
• Basic experience in Python, R or SQL

Advantageous/Preferred Experience and Knowledge:

• Honors/Masters
• Bacis experience or understanding in Power BI/Tableau