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  • Posted: Jul 17, 2025
    Deadline: Jul 30, 2025
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  • Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, formerly MMI Holdings, is a South African-based financial services group was established on 1 Dec 2010, through the merger of Metropolitan and Momentum. We are specialists in long and short-term insurance, asset management, savings, investments, healthcare administration, health risk management, employee benefits and reward...

     

    Data Scientist (Life)

    Role Purpose    

    • The primary purpose of this role is to deliver actionable insights, robust analytics, and data-driven support across Guardrisk Life’s portfolio. This is a mid-to-senior level Data Scientist role within the Data Analytics Life team, focused on unlocking business value through intelligent use of data.

    Requirements    

    • Bachelor’s degree in sciences or engineering with a strong focus on computer science, statistics, mathematics and/or actuarial sciences
    • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or a related quantitative field
    • Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field advantageous
    • Proficiency in Python and SQL is essential

    Beneficial:

    • Familiarity with DAX, Power BI, or VBA for reporting and automation tasks
    • Solid understanding of data infrastructure, version control (e.g., Git), and software development principles3–5 years of experience in data science, data analytics, or data engineering within a commercial or financial services environment
    • Experience working with large datasets in SQL and Python, with the ability to extract, clean, and analyse data efficiently
    • Experience with business intelligence tools, particularly Power BI, including data modelling and DAX measures
    • Experience validating data and outputs across multiple sources/systems (UAT or product testing experience advantageous)
    • Familiarity with insurance and/or actuarial data preferred

    Duties & Responsibilities    

    • Predictive modelling capability
    • Familiarity with machine learning principles, with the ability to implement models when appropriate
    • Critical analytical thinking and strong attention to detail
    • Creative, out-of-the-box problem solving
    • Ability to load, clean, and transform data from various formats (files, databases, APIs)
    • Validate and enrich data using external/internal sources
    • Feature engineering capabilities
    • Ensure data version control and integrity for audit purposes
    • Use BI tools (e.g., Power BI) to generate actionable insights
    • Build automated, reusable Power BI reports for stakeholders across business units
    • Present insights in a format that is both technically accurate and business-ready
    • Understand operational insurance environments and the data flows within them
    • Analyse and document business processes to unlock value from data
    • Assist with user acceptance testing (UAT) for product implementations, ensuring pricing logic and system configuration align with specifications
    • Conduct root cause analysis when test results deviate from expected outcomes
    • Ability to present complex findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
    • Proactively engage with business users to refine requirements and validate results
    • Intellectual curiosity and drive to continuously learn new tools, frameworks, and domain knowledge
    • Ability to understand and break down insurance processes and translate them into business and data requirements
    • Identify opportunities for process automation
    • Understanding of insurance and product lifecycles is advantageous; willingness to learn sector-specific concepts is essential

    Competencies    

    • Data Mining
    • Stakeholder engagement and Teamwork
    • Data Visualisation and Communication
    • Self-Awareness and Insight
    • Programming and Logical Thinking
    • Diversity and Inclusiveness
    • Strong self-organization and time management
    • Self-starter with the ability to manage deadlines, escalate blockers, and deliver high-impact work with minimal supervision
    • Comfortable working independently or collaboratively in a team
    • Effective collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
    • Analytical creativity and problem-solving mindset
    • Clear and concise communicator
    • High attention to detail

    Deadline:24th July,2024

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