Company in Cape Town is looking for an Intermediate Data Scientist to join their dynamic team based in Cape Town. CV to [Email Address Removed]
- Working on uplift modelling and forecasting key metrics
- Plan, prioritize and manage a roadmap of work that maximizes value-add with limited time
- Develop solutions according to the roadmap using appropriate methods, depending on the problem
- Measure, report, and continuously improve model performance
- Work closely with the Analytics team to brainstorm, identify opportunities and guide the roadmap
- Work closely with the BI team to produce consolidated, transformed data sets, where appropriate
- Work closely with the Software Engineering and Machine Learning Engineering teams to deploy and maintain relevant models in our production environment, ensuring Engineering best practices are adhered to.
- Communicate opportunities and solutions effectively to relevant stakeholders, from Software Engineers to Business Executives
- Collaborate and share knowledge with the analytics teams across the company
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science, or similar
- Master’s Degree in Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or similar highly beneficial
- 3-5 years of experience in Data Science or Analytics roles
- Experience deploying models into production environments is beneficial
Tech stack:
- Proficient with advanced methods for regression, optimization, classification, and unsupervised learning problems
- Proficient at modeling algorithms in either R or Python
- Proficient at gathering and wrangling big data sets from various sources including, SQL databases, Big Query, APIs, Excel/Google Sheets