Senior Specialist: Data Science - Sandton at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Key accountabilities

• Solve key challenges with data linkage and digitization by exploring opportunities in disruptive new technology to grow a data-centric culture. 
• Building both predictive and prescriptive machine learning models that will assist with increasing strategic and competitive advantage. All solutions must meet minimum criteria in terms of commercial uplift or increases in efficiencies.
• Partner with internal as well as third party providers of data to expand available datasets
• Provide mentoring to junior team members, through planned interventions as well as by providing guidance on the job by partnering with junior team members
• Ensure that all applicable data risk management standards and policies are adhered too, and also play an active role in the creation, implementation, and maintenance of robust model governance to ensure uniformity and scale of all data models produced.
• Partner with business to solve challenges through data science and also actively partake in the creation of a data science community in the broader organisation by sharing knowledge and skills.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Statistics, Bachelor Honours Degree: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences