Lead Data Scientist
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Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Are you ready to shape the future of AI in a business where innovation meets real-world impact
Were on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the design delivery and governance of cutting-edge machine learning and LLM solutions. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly influence strategic decisions optimise operations and unlock new value across the business.
Youll step into a technical leadership role guiding best practices in MLOps and Responsible AI while mentoring a talented team and partnering with stakeholders across the organisation.
What you will do:
Lead the planning and delivery of technical work from business requirements coordinating across product and business teams to ensure alignment and smooth execution.
Lead or participate in the design development validation and deployment of machine learning and LLM- based solutions.
Define and enforce best practices for model validation testing monitoring and governance challenging existing ways of working where needed.
Act as a technical leader and sparring partner reviewing designs challenging assumptions and guiding technical decisions.
Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to ensure robust scalable and cost-effective ML and AI workloads.
Communicate clearly with business and technical stakeholders about trade-offs risks and impact. Mentor other data scientists.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience:
Extensive experience in data science and applied machine learning with a track record of delivering and owning production ML systems end-to-end.
Hands-on experience with LLMs and related technologies (including but not limited to RAG embeddings prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks).
Familiarity with responsible AI model risk management or regulated production environments. Proficient in Python distributed data processing and the use of Spark / Databricks.
Proven experience deploying scaling and maintaining production-grade ML systems in a cloud environment (preferably Azure).
Strong understanding of MLOps best practices including experiment tracking model versioning automated testing CI/CD and monitoring.
Strong grounding in statistical thinking model evaluation and experimentation.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. Masters or PhD in Data Science Computer Science Statistics or a related STEM field.
This is more than just a data science role its an opportunity to lead AI innovation at scale influence business strategy and build solutions that truly matter.
If youre passionate about pushing boundaries in machine learning LLMs and MLOps this is your moment.
Required Skills:
Machine LearningLLMs & GenAIMLOpsPython & Spark Azure CloudStatistical AnalysisStakeholder Management
