Senior Data Scientist

  • Full-time
  • Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

Responsible for all components of product development and deployment of Data Science  as a business capability for Standard Bank (CIB). The role requires involvement in problem definition, data cleansing, hypothesis generation and testing, model training and testing and finally deployment and monitoring of predicted outcomes. The candidate will need to rapidly understand business problems, internalize and contextualize domain specific information and identify deployable, pragmatic solutions that are relevant and add real business value. The candidate will need to be able to effectively communicate the intended processes, provide a clear understanding of what data is required and available.

 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • First Degree in Information Technology
  • Post Graduate Degree in Mathematical Sciences
  • Business oriented individuals  with proven commercially successful data related projects will be given first preference.  Proficiency in programming, data manipulation, application of machine learning techniques, data visualisation and story-telling.
  • Experience in  structured and unstructured query languages and data science toolkits e.g. SQL, Jupyter, Zeppellin, Tableau, PowerBI, Spark, Python, R  and  SAS.M.Sc./Ph.D.  in Data Science / Applied Mathematics / Econometrics / Actuarial Sciences/Machine learning / Artificial Intelligence or any other STEM qualification  will be an advantage.    Business oriented individuals  with  proven commercially successful data  commercially successful data related projects will be given first preference.

Experience Required

  • 5-7 years ability to conceptualize and frame a problem, identify objective measures to estimate accuracy of machine learning/statistical processes and then provide detailed explanations (visually and verbally) in plain English to non-technical audiences around proposed solution. Ability to develop well defined processes that are methodical, provable, easily understood and operationalised within the production environment. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and multidisciplinary environment. Advise senior management in clear language about the implications of their work for the organisation. 
  • 5-7 years experience in working with unstructured data (e.g. Streams, images) Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data. Using data mining to discover new patterns from large datasets. Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data. Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc. Experience with data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.

     

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies

  • Providing Insights
  • Examining Information
  • Articulating Information
  • Adopting Practical Approaches
  • Checking Details

Technical Competencies

  • Diagramming and Modelling
  • Knowledge Classification
  • Data Integrity
  • Data Analysis
  • Database Administration

 

The Standard Bank Group has implemented a Vaccination Policy for all roles which require the incumbent to work from the Standard Bank premises on a full-time or intermittent basis. Full vaccination against COVID-19 is therefore an inherent requirement of this role

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