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  • Posted: Dec 23, 2020
    Deadline: Jan 17, 2021
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    The Shoprite Group of Companies, Africa's largest food retailer, operates 2,653 outlets in 15 countries across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands and reported turnover of R71.297 billion for the six months ended December 2016. The Company's headquarters are situated in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Shoprite Holdings Ltd is a public company li...
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    Data Scientist

    Purpose of the Job    

    • The Data Scientist is primarily responsible for designing and building solutions that will maximise customer value and retention. As a key member of our Advanced Analytics team, that is responsible for compiling and organizing large volumes of performance data, the ideal candidate should be proactive, have a positive attitude, and is well organized and adept at managing deadlines and priorities.

    Job Objectives    
    Team Integration:

    • Assist in defining the business problems with appropriate questions and by proposing a specific analysis approach. Lead the business requirement discovery process, working with business stakeholders to identify business requirements and model and frame business scenarios that are meaningful and which impact on critical business processes and/or decisions. Work closely with solution architects, systems analysts, and project managers in the design of solutions.

    Solution Development:.

    • Define models to be created and implemented together with the approach to implementing them. Explore data and create descriptive and predictive models in cycles. Put models into production, monitor for accuracy and robustness, and where appropriate implement a retraining approach for models.
    • Take ownership of the deployment of data science applications to ensure buy-in by the business. Define data quality expectations and provide ongoing tracking and monitoring of performance of data systems and models

    Service Delivery:

    • Perform sophisticated data preparation in order to reduce and shape data. Apply visualisation and exploration techniques to the data such as assortment optimisation, shelf space allocation, customer-driven marketing, forecasting, and other supply chain analytics, and fraud detection and prevention. Apply a comprehensive set of predictive and descriptive modelling techniques to the data appropriate to achieving the business objectives which includes decision trees and association rules.

    Qualifications    

    • Bachelors / Honours / Masters or PhD Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, economics, Information Systems, Statistics or Mathematics or related field

    Technologies:

    • SQL
    • AWS toolsets (beneficial)
    • Python or any object based coding experience in any language
    • Tableau (beneficial)

    Experience    

    • Scientist: 1-2 years
    • Snr Scientist: 3-5 years
    • Working experience as a Data Scientist
    • Experience in mathematical or Machine learning algorithmic research
    • A desire to work hands-on in analysing and modelling large data sets
    • Report creation, modelling and trend forecasting
    • Working with large amounts of data

    Knowledge and Skills    

    • Strong understanding of data science theories, principles, and practices
    • Knowledge of graph theory, combinatory and optimisation methods
    • Knowledge of current trends in software design, architecture, and web services
       

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to The Shoprite Group of Companies on shoprite.erecruit.co to apply

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