AI and Analytics Engineer CPT or Gauteng
AI and Analytics Engineer CPT or Gauteng
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Duties & Responsibilities
ENVIRONMENT:
A leading company in the Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) sector is offering an exciting opportunity for an AI and Analytics Engineer to deliver intelligent systems at scale. This role focuses on empowering crossfunctional business and customer development teams through advanced data and analytics. Youll be responsible for building applications that help teams move faster and make more accurate forwardlooking decisions by leveraging big data and data science.
DUTIES:
- Deliver Intelligent systems at scale. Powering Business (crossfunctional) and Customer Development areas through data and analytics. Building out the right applications to enable business teams to move faster with more accurate and futurelooking decisions leveraging Big Data & Data Science.
- Winning disproportionately. Creating analytics products that make a significant impact on our business and drive competitive advantage in the market while collaborating appropriately with other markets and Global teams (i.e. winning both locally and globally).
- Drive us to assisted and predictive decisionmaking. The future is about assisted decisionmaking with machines (AI/Cognitive Computing/Machine Learning) unlocking the insights from a vast deluge of consumer customer & internal data and presenting this in a way that is simple for our teams.
- Make data a true asset. Better data and data science access for every part of the business across the 3 data frameworks (Connectivity Growth Continuous Improvement) and leading through the Enterprise Data Executive.
- Worldclass Information. One Version of the Facts. Continued excellence in the delivery of diagnostics and insights to focus attention when and where it matters with a focus on Big Bets Strategic Initiatives and Leadership team reporting.
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines architectures and datasets.
- Working knowledge of architectures to support advanced analytics and data science.
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Knowledge about and experience of the use of data to deliver business insights and transform delivery in various companies.
- Experience with building processes supporting data transformation data structures dependency and workload management.
- A successful history of manipulating processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
- Working knowledge of message queuing stream processing and highly scalable data stores
- Experience supporting and working with crossfunctional teams in a dynamic environment.
- Understand the business problems and how to deliver relevant insights that lead to actions
- Gather data and build data science and algorithmic solutions to address business problems requiring descriptive diagnostic predictive and/or prescriptive analytics.
- Create experimentation to solve complex business problems and deliver predictions on future business outcomes in a repeatable and relevant way
- Support product teams scaling models into lowtouch solutions to provide optimal ROI from data science.
- Work on inmarket business problems coming from CCBTs CD Finance and CLT. Identify common themes to build repeatable models and partner with CD CCBT and Finance leadership to support 4G growth through data and analytics and/or advance the next phase of NRM
- Position analytics as a tradable currency with customers to gain a competitive advantage.
- Drive new value from insights from connecting external and internal data sources
- Innovate new data and analytic methodologies are driven by local needs which feed into D&As global product pipeline
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelors degree or higher in Mathematics Data Science Engineering Actuarial Econometrics Statistics Computer Sciences (with a mathematics basis) or STEM related degree. Strong Mathematical ability is essential.
- Minimum of 7 10 years of relevant work experience.
- B.S. or M.S. in a relevant technical field (Operations Research Computer Science Statistics Engineering or Mathematics)
- 48 years work experience in a data science role with a significant focus on largescale and/or unstructured data
- Experience managing projects from start to finish.
- Passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data.
- Consulting experience or equivalent existing professional network is essential to help drive stakeholder relationships and identify opportunities.
- Experience in efficiently managing multidisciplinary teams and various stakeholder deliverables according to scope and timelines.
- Understanding of financial aspects of business such as budgets costs revenue calculations customer management etc.
- Experience using the suite of Microsoft Office software (Excel and Word and PowerPoint) skills required.
Experience using at least a minimum 1 of the following technologies
- (SAS/R/Python/Data Bricks/or similar).
- Experience using relevant data tools (PowerPivot and/or Power Query and/or SQL or similar).
- Some experience in Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence or Analytical Modelling.
- Experience using Business Intelligence Platforms will be advantageous (Power BI/Tableau/QlikView/other similar).
- Cloud experience would be advantageous (Azure/AWS/GCP/Other).
- Experience in delivering projects through various delivery methods such as Agile are advantageous.
- Other programming/coding skills are advantageous (e.g. Dax/VBA/Other).
- Certifications in cloud technologies/capabilities AI/ML/statistical modelling reporting/visualization/dashboarding technologies project management or related capabilities will be advantageous.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management.
- Processminded
- Fluent written and spoken English is mandatory fluency in other languages is a plus.
- Logical thinker and problem solver
- Good presentation and communication skills
- Strong technical ability
- Ability to work both independently and within a team.
- Capacity to think on your feet and embrace new challenges as they arise
While we would really like to respond to every application should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Employment Type
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