Data Scientist - Bellville at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• This role is accountable for rendering data and analytics-based support within MWL to enhance operational effectiveness/innovation, enable better sales and solve business problems.

 Key responsibilities are:

• Manage the leads pipeline
• Render technical support with selected investigations and data analytics
• Provide input into business plans/projects
• Provide data/analytics support and solutions 
• Manage client profiles and segmentations
• Ensure data governance and integrity
• Stakeholder management
• People management

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & experience:

• Related qualification in data science/quantitative analysis preferable (maths and statistics)
• Relevant accreditations in tools, applications (i.e.:  Python, R, SQL, etc)
• Management diploma (preferable)
• 3-5 years’ experience within a data analytics environment

Knowledge and skills:

IT:

• MS: Excel, Word, PP, Outlook, Access
• Pandas (Python), R
• Standard Data storage reading/writing: SQL, flat files including CSV
• GLM and Machine learning techniques
• BI and Big Data tools would be an advantage: Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Data streaming

Business:

• Sound financial services industry knowledge 
• A business operating model and strategy
• Digital and alternative distribution operations (including call centres)
• Relevant regulatory legislation and compliance knowledge 
• Statistical analysis
• Quantitative modelling/analytics
• Data modelling 
• Data management /storage and transformation
• Database design and management
• Architecture and Infrastructure management and enablement
• Data Science solutions for Big Data problems. 
• Data governance and security
• Client profiling and behavioural modelling
• MIS and reporting
• Business modelling and feature engineering 
• People management