Looking to make a difference and engage in meaningful work?
Well this is your opportunity to join a South African not-for profit organisation where your contributions will have a direct and significant impact on the lives of others…
They’re not what you’d typically expect from an NPO. This is a well-managed and well-funded crowd, leveraging cutting edge technologies and partnerships with SA’s big name corporates to play their part in solving one of the country’s biggest challenges – youth unemployment…
The working environment has been praised as being warm and friendly with excellent work/life balance, a great team and an overall superb company culture.
As part of the product development team you’ll work alongside a team of +/- 45 like-minded IT professionals, utilising your skills in SQL and Python OR R to derive insights and actionable intelligence from large, complex data sets in an Agile environment.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Statistics OR Mathematics OR Information Systems OR similar
- 6+ years’ commercial experience as a Data Analyst
- Expert level skills in SQL
- Solid knowledge of machine learning principals / techniques applicable to data analysis / data analytics
- Intermediate to expert knowledge in either Python OR R
- Expert level skills in data visualisation, report and dashboard development
- Ability to explain complex, technical subject matter to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong understanding of statistical measurements used during feature selection and transformation
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to break down and understand business problems prior to exploring and designing data-driven solutions
- Data preparation and clean up using Python, R or SQL
- Draw comparisons and evaluate different algorithms used in machine learning
- Assist BI team with any analytics difficulties that may arise during BI report writing
- Compile and document analytical research reports independently and storytelling through data
- Design and build dashboards and reports to enable the business
- Ad hoc analysis to assist business to make better, data driven decisions
Reference Number for this position is CN51337 which is a 24 – months Fixed Term Contract position based in Jhb CBD offering an annual cost to company salary of R720k – R780k negotiable on experience and ability.
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Desired Skills:
- SQL
- Python
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years Data Analysis / Data Warehousing
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree