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Black Pen Recruitment is South Africa’s leading recruitment consultancy specialised in BPO services, foreign language recruitment and immigration services. With our outstanding experience in the BPO industry and our own in-house immigration division, we will find the right candidates for foreign language specialist positions as well as immigration solu...
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As a Principal Data Scientist (Financial Services) you will help deliver actionable insights through analyses of big data from unrelated sources.
Type: Full-Time | Permanent
The ideal candidate for this role should have:
A minimum of 7 years experience as a data scientist
Extensive experience in Data Modelling
Experience in Leading Organisation Culture and Change
A Strategic Mindset
Experience in Data Visualisation
Experience in Data Analytics and Insights
Experience in Data Management and Transformation
Experience in AI - Deep and Machine Learning
Your responsibilities will include:
Develops and delivers key predictive models, statistical models and machine learning-based tools and supports senior managers in the delivery of data science solutions for complex commercial requirements
Ensures Big Data solutions comply with data privacy laws
Provides deep technical analytical and data expertise to the business and other Data Scientists, using a wide variety of available data, to solve complex business problems
Manages the delivery of key packages of work, to time, budget and legislation, in a collaborative manner to meet the needs of business customers
Monitors and optimizes performance of developed models by driving experiments, benchmarking, etc
Uses a variety of datasets to test hypotheses, discover hidden relationships and provide actionable insights
Uses data visualisation to engage audience in a compelling way, enabling effective storytelling
Maintains strong relations and interacts closely with stakeholders across the business to advise and help solve complex problems
Demonstrates strong communication skills, influencing the exchange of ideas and information in a concise and logical way to reach the desired solutions
Uses best practice knowledge to provide thought leadership that supports modelling techniques, algorithms and being able to tune, modify and implement changes to address different business problems / questions
May provide informal guidance to junior members of the team
Please Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
If this sparks your interest, apply today! we’d love to hear from you!
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