Data Scientist - Johannesburg
Salary Negotiable
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Johannesburg,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
17-11-2016 1:00:01 AM
15-12-2016 1:00:01 AM
A new position is available for an energetic Data Scientist in the Johannesburg area.
Responsibilities:
• Maintain and upgrade big data platform.
• Transparently report on the quality of data in the data lake.
• Identify and understand the business problem and the impact of the proposed solution on operations of the organization.
• Architect/model big data structures for analytical applications.
• Formulate, build, apply and maintain predictive models.
• Drive multiple applications using Agile methodologies.
• Version control and document work for reproducibility.
• Spread an understanding of data science throughout the group and encourage innovation.
Qualifications and Experience:
• Ph.D. or Master’s Degree in operations research, applied statistics, applied mathematics, physics, data mining, machine learning or a related quantitative discipline
• Expert in analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional datasets with a variety of tools.
• Fluent with both relational algebra and MapReduce logic.
• Deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms
• Accomplished in the use of statistical analysis environments such as R, scikit-learn, MLlib, MATLAB, SPSS or SAS
• Familiar with tools that encourage reproducibility and collaboration; Jupyter, Zeppelin, RStudio, git
• Experience with enterprise BI; QlikView, Lumira, Tableau, Zoomdata, Cognos, SAP BW, SSRS, …
• Experience with enterprise ETL; SSIS, SAP DS, IBM DataStage, Pentaho, …
• Development experience in order of preference: Python, C/C++, Java, Advanced Linux user, Microsoft Office; Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook
• 5+ Years Business Analysis Experience
Interested candidates can forward their comprehensive written applications to the following e-mail: it. jobs(at) or fax to: (***)-***-****, you can also contact Nikita on (***)-***-****
Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 working days after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.