Posted on: 21 September 2024
ID 924097

Decision Scientist

We're On The Lookout For Energetic, Self-motivated Individuals Who Share Our Passion For Service In The Banking Industry. To Be Part Of The Journey, Follow The Steps Below
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Purpose Statement

  • To solve business problems, create new products and services and improve processes through using the disciplinces of data science, translating active business data into usable strategic information.
  • To look at ways of analyzing and optimising data as it relates to a specific business area; framing data analysis in terms of the decision-making process for questions or business problems posed by a stakeholder.
  • To help build and deliver Capitec's AI/Machine Learning strategy, enabling data-led and improved business decision making. Design quantitative advanced analytics models that answer business questions and/or discover opportunities for improvement, increased revenue or reduced costs.
Candidate Requirements

Qualifications & Experience
  • Degree in Mathematics | Statistics | Data Science | Business Analytics | Engineering | Computer Science Plus 4+yrs relevant work experience. OR
  • Hons Degree in Mathematics | Statistics | Data Science | Business Analytics | Engineering | Computer Science Plus 3+yrs relevant work experience. OR
  • Masters Degree in Data Science or relevant discipline e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science.
Knowledge
  • Functional business area (e.g. Credit) environment knowledge and experience
  • Regulatory requirements e.g. NCR, POPIA, SARB
  • Business analysis, requirements gathering, translating into business requirement specifications and designing and delivering business solutions.
  • With modern software development best practices.
  • Working in cloud environments, e.g. Azure, AWS
  • Different operating systems / databases / programming language
  • Predictive modelling techniques (statistical and machine learning) and deployment
  • Extracting, aggregating, cleaning and analysing data from large relational databases
  • Data Science lifecycle and applicable skills within
Functional Skills
  • Programming; Data base manipulation | Data Exploration Visualisation
  • Statistical model development
  • Advanced Computer literacy and programming (Office Suite, Working on different OS environments, e.g. working on remote Linux environment and dockerising machine learning models)
  • Building and deployment of models
  • ML language, for example SQL SAS
  • Version Control
  • Ability to productionalise and solution design
  • Ability to learn, understand and apply complex machine learning methodologies
  • Functional domain skill of the (e.g. credit) environment
  • Capability to identify and define and solve the business problem i.e. application of domain know how and problem solving.
  • Cloud computing (navigating on cloud vs on prem.)
Additional Information
  • Clear credit and criminal record
Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.

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