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Data Scientist - Sandton, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited

Absa Bank Limited

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Sandton, South Africa

1 month ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Use your extensive Data experience in this exciting role Start the year off as a Data Scientist The overall function of the Data Scientist role is to frame and solve business problems and pursue business opportunities through a data-centric approach.

This approach involves the analysis of big-data and to provide the framework and blueprints in order to design information solutions for various business areas.

Job Description:

Key Accountabilities

Become acquainted with APMO business function, and build and maintain strong relationships with the IT to develop an understanding of business strategy and objectives, identifying the implications to define the data modeling goals for designated initiatives
Lead the data acquisition, data mining, and overall project management duties related to one or more existing analytics project areas.
Design, develop and establish the relevant frameworks, models and business practices to drive the datacentric approach to understanding current business area problems and strategy, with the provision of input into solutions
Ensure that all data analytics and design are communicated in a businessrelated manner
Ensuring a constant link between how data inputs and outputs affect APMO strategy and outcomes
Create and deliver Businessoriented insights as to where the problems/opportunities lie
Meet with APMO team members and leads to identify, interpret and document/review requirements and needs aligned to the strategic direction of the organisation
Understand APMO concerns or problems both strategic and operational and map and translate business problems into trackable analytical problems, relaying results in common business language
Analyse data across multiple systems and multiple formats and provide analytics
Perform formal quality assessment of requirements with business/project lead where applicable
Develop and analyze analytical data sets across multiple sources of data, assist in creating meaningful visualisations and design
Design, develop and run model assessments, validation, enhancement activities and balancing procedures to ensure integrity of data
Testing of development work done
Partner with IT to effectively migrate analytical models from prototype to production

Education and experience required