Data Scientist - Pretoria, South Africa - Affirmative Portfolios

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Information Technology

Pretoria
***: **Data Scientist (Marketing and Natural Language Processing)

  • Pretoria**
    Salary: R 1 104,29
  • Permanent

KEY PORTFOLIO AND PERFORMANCE FOCUS AREAS

  • Support the Chief Digital Officer and Senior Data Architect using a variety of stateoftheart cloud.
- based technologies to solve data analysis and prediction problems.

  • Identify and act on new opportunities for data driven business in data science and analytics.
  • Recognise when existing solutions can be generalised to solve new problems and address new dataasaservice verticals.
  • Work in a collaborative environment developing data science methods, tools, and algorithms to solve problems.
  • Become fluent in analytical modelling using the organization's internal data modelling platforms and tool.

Cloud

  • Microsoft Azure (must)
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud

Big Data

  • Mondodb
  • Hadoop
  • Cassandra
  • Machine Learning
  • Kubeflow
  • Tensorflow
  • PyTorch

Business Intelligence/Analytics and visualisation

  • Microsoft PowerBi (must)
  • Microsoft Excel (must)
  • Google Analytics (must)
  • Adobe Analytics (must)
  • Google Charts
  • NLTK (must)
  • Textblob
  • SpaCy
  • CoreNLP
  • Datorama (advantage)

Languages

  • Python (must)
  • R (must)
  • SQL (must)

Conversational AI

  • Dialogflow
  • Teneo
  • Bot Framework / Bot Builder SDK (ideal)
  • Watson Assistant
  • Associated tools and technologies as they become available, and the platform evolves.
  • Load and merge data originating from diverse sources.
  • Performa data cleansing, and quality management.
  • Preprocess and Transform data for model building and analysis.
  • Troubleshoot data quality issues and work with team members to reach solutions.
  • Perform descriptive analytics to discover trend and pattern in the data.
  • Create visualizations, including dashboards to provide insights on large data sets and input to finished reports.
  • Develop predictive models for business solutions.
  • Deploy predictive and other models to production.
  • Build and train NLP models.
  • Analyse output products to assure data quality and conformance to requirements.
  • Develop technical specification for 3rd party platform data integration and streaming.
  • Participate in continuous improvement efforts to increase available data quality and speed of delivery.
  • Address adhoc domainspecific data analytic requirements from domain or cluster leaders; and a continuously deliver usercentric data visualisations, publications, and product.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor's or Honour's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Econometrics, Actuarial Science or equivalent experience
  • Masters in Statistics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Econometrics, an advantage.
  • 3+ years data science and analysis experience
  • Proficient in Python and database technologies
  • Valid Driver's License.
  • Ability to speak and read Afrikaans
  • Exposure to financial services and/or fast retail/FMCG
  • Business acumen
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