Data Scientist at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To design, prototype, and build next-generation analytic systems and services by applying strong expertise in machine learning, data mining and information retrieval.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop Data Science Use Cases with a small team in an agile fashion.
• Machine learning and Model training/retraining.
• Exploratory data analysis and visualisations using large data sets.
• Acquire and load relevant data and generate features from this data sets.
• Maintain production Models as required.

Essential Qualification

• BSc Computer Science, BSc Engineering, Econometrics, Mathematical Statistics, Actuarial Science.

Preferred:

• Related Master’s Degree

Certifications:

• Related Data Science Certifications

Minimum Experience Level

• 2 - 5 years’ experience in a Data Science role
• Portfolio of delivering Data Science solutions

Advantageous experience (not a disqualifier):

• Refactoring and deployment of models into production

Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.):

• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics, optimization or related field
• Experience working with large data sets, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools

Programming/Application Skills

• Python
• SQL
• Spark
• Flask

Database Skills

• SQL Server
• Netezza,
• Redis,
• MongoDB etc.

Job Closing Date
10 February 2020

Location
Sandton, Johannesburg