Data Scientist at Progressive Edge

An innovative online marketplace company has a new role available for a skilled Data Scientist. The company is looking for enthusiastic, analytical, and creative individuals to join their Business Intelligence Team. The Company is part of a global classified websites company with 20 brands in around 30 countries. The company strives to develop outstanding user experiences on their websites and mobile applications.

The South African based platform has over 700 independent websites, used by over 4 000 agencies and 37 000 agents, using the platform daily. In addition, more than 2,5 Million consumers make use of the platform. Our client is looking for critical thinkers who have proven experience in building scalable cloud-based applications.

You will be:

• Proactively identify data improvement opportunities and insights to the business
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Create algorithms and build predictive models to enhance product offerings
• Use machine learning techniques to improve the quality of data
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and tracking of its performance
• Generating reports with insights from data sets and models to present to team

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in BI with a strong focus on data science
• Possessing either a Data Scientist or Statistics qualification.
• Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
• Experience with Excel, Tableau, SQL, and programming languages (i.e. Python)
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as clustering methods, neural networks, boosting algorithms etc.
• Outstanding analytical skills - the ability to identify trends, patterns and insights from data

The Role Offers:

• Full Remote or Free breakfast daily and onsite gym at the office
• Competitive salaries and performance bonus