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Specialist: Data Scientist – Sandton at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

  • Job Type Full Time , Hybrid
  • Qualification Bachelors
  • Experience
  • Location Gauteng
  • Job Field Data, Business Analysis and AI&nbsp , ICT / Computer&nbsp

Specialist: Data Scientist – Sandton at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Specialist: Data Scientist – Sandton

Job Summary

  • Leverage deep data science expertise in advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, storytelling, distributed computing & data visualisation, machine learning tools & data intuition to define, build, operationalize & continuously improve data solutions that deliver relevant, quality assured, accurate & commercially impactful data to the business.

Job Description

Data Science

  • Participate in design thinking processes to determine & confirm hypotheses and priority questions / data challenges & related metrics to be solved for
  • Translate business questions to be solved into data requirements & define a data solutions to deliver against these requirements
  • Proactively partner with the data engineering team and reporting and visualizations team to refine the data requirements deliver raw data to Data Science teams for interpretation & analysis
  • Design fit for purpose data interpretation & analysis approaches & create customized data models, algorithms, machine learning tools and recommendation engines to achieve the desired business outcomes
  • Use advanced data science skills to mine & interpret data. These include but are not limited to: advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, distributed computing, machine learning tools & data intuition

Analyse & interpret complex data sets

  • Apply quality assurance frameworks to test model & analysis techniques (e.g. algorithms, models) & overall data quality
  • Apply the testing frameworks to monitor and analyse model performance & data integrity on all data assignments
  • Produce business insights and recommendations based on data analysis & modeling concluded & where relevant with knowledge and experience of e.g. Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark, PowerBI, SAS, SQL, & Kafka
  • Use storytelling and data visualization techniques to maximize impact & deliver a user friendly product to business
  • Contribute to the consolidation of data and modeling solutions into viable end products (in the language of business) that can be leveraged on an ongoing basis e.g. dashboards, reports etc.
  • Present data analysis (trends, insights, forecasts) & findings to business & show tangible business impact to be derived from the data science process
  • Facilitate peer reviews & feedback on data solutions
  • Refine data analysis based on business & peer reviews
  • Contribute to the assessments of the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources & data gathering techniques
  • Promote data literacy with your business stakeholders by sharing best practices and showing tangible business impact & recommendations as a direct result of the the data solutions provided
  • Stay ahead of the curve on data science trends & leading practice data science tools and techniques & transition the organisation to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of data

Accountability: Risk & Governance

  • Identify data risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post solution deployment / data delivery)
  • Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (if required)
  • Apply data quality assurance frameworks and tools to guarantee data quality & data integrity (always) for specific data solutions
  • Contribute to risk, governance, compliance & broader regulatory processes as a data science expert (if & when required)

Accountability: People

  • Coach & mentor junior data scientists and interns
  • Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

End Date: September 5, 2025 

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Absa Group Limited (Absa) on absa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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