Senior Data Scientist
Afrimat is currently seeking the services of a Senior Data Scientist. The Senior Data Scientist is responsible for developing predictive models and creating analytical solutions and applies analytics to data to describe, predict, and improve business performance.
Minimum Qualifications / Experience / Competencies
- Bachelor Degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics/ Information Technology/ Data Science (Essential), Masters Degree (Desirable).
- Advance programming in R / SQL / Hive / Python / C++ OR Python (Essential).
- At least 7 years professional experience performing analytical work within a strong analytical organisation or department (Essential).
- Business critical thinking and creative problem-solving experience (Essential).
- Project Management experience (Desirable).
Duties and Responsibilities
- Developing predictive models and machine learning algorithms.
- Implementing data mining techniques and/or statistical analysis.
- Creating data visualizations, reports, and dashboards.
- Presenting results of data analysis to business stakeholders.
- Integrating data from multiple sources.
- Developing and maintaining data pipelines.
- Evaluating and selecting appropriate datasets, tools, and techniques.
- Identifying data trends, patterns, and relationships.
- Collaborating with other data science team members.
- Creating actionable insights from large datasets.
- Developing data architectures, databases, and data warehouses.
- Documenting processes, methods, and findings.
The candidates must be medically fit in terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act and the Company standards for medical fitness.
Closing Date: 14 April 2023
