Senior Data Scientist (AI) at Liberty Group South Africa

About the Role

Develop solutions to current business problems that make commercial sense by extracting, analysing, and interpreting relevant data and engaging with key enablers in the business.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise on and provide support to business related to the testing of new initiatives from start to finish.
• Provides regular management information to the leadership of the division that assists in enabling decision-making.
• Develops solutions to current business problems that make commercial sense by engaging with key enablers in the business.
• Analyses and measures the actual experience of implemented solutions against expected outcomes and tracks efficiency gains.
• Conducts ad-hoc business intelligence investigations to provide substance to the ideas and direction of the Executive Team.
• Proactively identifies areas where improvements can be made to current systems and/or processes.
• Engages with a wide range of stakeholders across different levels of the organisation
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.
• Extracts and analyses data using SQL, Python and R.
• Develop and maintain machine learning and deep learning competencies.
• Selecting and employing advanced statistical procedures to obtain actionable insights.