Specialist Data Scientist - Sandton, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited
Description
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.
Leverage deep data science expertise in advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering &predictive modeling, storytelling, distributed computing & data visualisation, machine learning tools & data intuition to define, build, operationalize & continuously improve data solutions that deliver relevant, quality assured, accurate & commercially impactful data to the business.
Job Description:
Data Science
- Participate in design thinking processes to determine & confirm hypotheses and priority questions / data challenges & related metrics to be solved for
- Translate business questions to be solved into data requirements & define a data solutions to deliver against these requirements
- Proactively partner with the data engineering team to refine the data requirements deliver raw data to Data Science teams for interpretation & analysis
- Design fit for purpose data interpretation & analysis approaches & create customized data models, algorithms, machine learning tools and recommendation engines to achieve the desired business outcomes
- Use advanced data science skills to mine & interpret data.
These include but are not limited to:
advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, distributed computing, machine learning tools & data intuition
- Analyse & interpret complex data sets
- Produce business insights and recommendations based on data analysis & modeling concluded & where relevant with knowledge and experience of e.g. Java, Scala, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark & Kafka
- Use storytelling and data visualization techniques to maximize impact & deliver a user friendly product to business
- Contribute to the consolidation of data solutions into viable end products (in the language of business) that can be leveraged on an ongoing basis e.g. dashboards, reports etc.
- Present data analysis (trends, insights, forecasts) & findings to business & show tangible business impact to be derived from the data science process
- Facilitate peer reviews & feedback on data solutions
- Refine data analysis based on business & peer reviews
- Contribute to the assessments of the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources & data gathering techniques
- Promote data literacy with your business stakeholders by sharing best practices and showing tangible business impact & recommendations as a direct result of the the data solutions provided
- Stay ahead of the curve on data science trends & leading practice data science tools and techniques & transition the organisation to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of data
Accountability:
Risk & Governance
- Identify data risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post solution deployment / data delivery)
- Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (if required)
- Contribute to risk, governance, compliance & broader regulatory processes as a data science expert (if & when required)
Accountability:
People
- Coach & mentor other data scientists
- Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
Bachelor's Degree:
Information Technology
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_
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