Data Scientist

An original South African technology brand, harnessing the power of data, technology, and human ingenuity to solve real-world problems – from the everyday to the epic with digitalisation in industry solutions, digital business and distribution services have a vacancy for a Data Scientist with a specialist skill set. The main purpose of the role is to create and facilitate appropriate access to data for key stakeholders and creating visibility for the business.

Responsibilities:

• Modelling of complex business problems.
• Identifying opportunities to improve business processes.
• Building tailor made SQL solutions for monitoring and automation of controls.
• Development of exception reports and Power BI dashboards for stakeholders in the business.
• Utilising Store procedures to create routines that maintain reporting and automated controls.
• Identify and build appropriate models/other solutions for use in the company’s operations.
• Creating logic links between data from various systems to facilitate cross system reporting.
• Automation of controls in the business processes.       
• Design and implement automated data comparisons to trigger certain processes.
• Simplifying complex manual processes into simple automated processes.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree in Statistics/Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics
• 5+ years relevant experience
• Expert level knowledge of SQL
• Advanced Excel
• Experience using Power BI or similar tools
• Python, Pytorch
• SQL, NOSQL
• TensorFlow
• Spark
• Hadoop
• Github
• ETL
• Machine learning
• QlikView
• AWS/Azure

The Reference Number for this position is NG60355 which is a Contract position in Johannesburg offering a salary of R450 up to R550 per hour salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on az.oc.egreM-e@galuhtukon or call her for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 07 Apr 11:37, Closing date 6 Jun