Data Scientist - Port Elizabeth, South Africa - AESG

Description

AESG is an international specialist consultancy, engineering, and advisory firm, with offices across the UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore dedicated to help solve our clients greatest challenges, through collaboration, innovation, and advanced technical solutions. With unparalleled experience, gained from working on hundreds of projects, our multi-disciplinary team of Architects, Planners, Engineers, Scientists, Modelers and Project Managers work alongside our clients to deliver effective solutions that stand the test of time.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Data Scientist, who will be responsible for analysing large datasets, developing machine learning models, and implementing data-driven solutions. They work closely with cross-functional teams within the design and construction sector to gather requirements, clean and pre-process data, and perform exploratory data analysis.

The ideal candidate fits the below profile:

• Strong communication skills
• Motivated and self-driven (entrepreneurial outlook)
• Committed to technical excellence
• Good relationship builders (internal and external)
• Collaborative personality

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be required to assist in developing and maintaining data pipelines, conducting statistical analysis, and visualising data.
• Collect, clean, and pre-process data from various sources to ensure its quality and reliability.
• Develop and implement data pipelines for efficient data extraction and transformation.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to understand patterns, trends, and anomalies in the data.
• Identify relevant variables and relationships that can inform business decisions.
• Create compelling visualizations to communicate complex findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop dashboards and reports to facilitate data-driven decision-making.

Essential Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Minimum 3 years experience working as a Data Scientist or in a similar role.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or R is essential.
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, data manipulation, and data visualization techniques.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and frameworks is desirable.
• Proficiency with Power BI and Excel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to formulate and test hypotheses, identify patterns and trends in data, and draw meaningful insights from complex datasets.
• Experience in the construction or financial sectors would be a plus but not essential.

Why join AESG?

AESG is multidisciplinary specialist consultancy, offering a consultancy service and work environment like no other.

Through our world class reputation for innovative thinking, pushing projects to out-perform expectations through smart application of planning, engineering and architectural solutions, our project portfolio includes some of the worlds most forward thinking and exciting new developments.

The success of our company is built on the success of individuals. Our ability to achieve what we have is because our staff are driven, passionate and love what they do.

As an employee of AESG you can expect:

• A huge amount of freedom for our high performing employees
• Great career opportunities as the company continues to grow, with access to huge variety of projects and incredible clients
• Working on some of the worlds leading developments and tackling our clients greatest challenges
• Commitment in building on your areas of specialism and focal interest points, supporting your professional development through a structured training and mentorship program
• Highly collaborative approach across the different technical service offerings
• Promotion of the importance of health and well-being of the team, including team building fitness activities, social events and the provision of a healthy work environment
• To be part of a dynamic and motivated team with an amazing team culture