Data Scientist Ii - Cape Town, South Africa - FirstRand

FirstRand
FirstRand
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

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Hello Future Data Scientist II

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables.

We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.


As part of our talent team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious.

Now's the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.


Are you someone who can:

  • Plan, build, optimise and implement innovative machine learning solutions, primarily for financial fraud problems.
  • Extract data from various platforms and analyse for feature exploration.
  • Perform analytics and visualisations to aid Exploratory Data Analysis and engineer new features for models.
  • Understanding of feature development
  • Experience with Python, DataRobot, SAS advantageous. Understanding of various ML Algorithms.
  • Competency in coding, SQL.
  • Self driven to improve models.
  • Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.
  • Self manage, can seek out colleagues to find data, information etc
  • Ensure compliance to legislative and audit requirements and adherence to relevant processes.
  • Professional documentation and ability to present at forums.
  • Contribute to creative business solutions, optimisation of processes and conduct statistical modelling and data analysis to inform strategic decisions, under limited supervision.
  • Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships within FNB and/or across the FRG.


  • Minimum Qualification

  • Honours Degree in Computer Science, Stats,
  • Machine Learning or Data Science would be preferable.
  • Experience 3/5 years relevant experience.

You will have access to:

  • Opportunities to network and collaborate.
  • Challenging Working
  • Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you are:

  • Curious & creative
  • you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
  • Obsessed with mastery you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
  • Self Driven
Job Details

Application Closing Date

20/02/24
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