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Data Scientist (Senior)


Job Location:

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Experience Required: 5years
Posted: 9 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 6 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

The Senior Data Scientist will be responsible for translating business problems into data-driven and AI-enabled solutions. The role requires strong expertise in data analysis machine learning data engineering and stakeholder engagement while working closely with data engineering AI platform and observability teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Translate business problems into data-driven and AI-enabled solutions
  • Perform exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns issues and opportunities
  • Design build and maintain data pipelines to support analytics and modelling use cases
  • Develop train evaluate and iterate on machine learning and AI models
  • Apply appropriate model evaluation techniques and define success metrics
  • Support operational data workflows and resolve day-to-day data processing issues when required
  • Produce clear dashboards reports and visualisations for stakeholders
  • Communicate insights model behaviour and recommendations to both technical and business audiences
  • Collaborate closely with data engineering AI platform and observability teams to productionise solutions
  • Contribute to best practices around data quality governance and responsible use of AI

Requirements

Essential Skills

  • Excel SQL PowerBI AWS and quicksight
  • Data analysis exploration and feature engineering (EDA)
  • Strong applied statistics and machine learning foundations
  • Python-based data science and ML stack (e.g. pandas NumPy scikit-learn PyTorch / TensorFlow)
  • Data engineering skills: ETL design batch and streaming data processing
  • Experience with distributed data systems (e.g. Kafka Spark or equivalent)
  • SQL and structured / semi-structured data querying
  • Experiment design model evaluation and validation techniques
  • Dashboarding reporting and data visualisation
  • Business problem translation and requirements understanding
  • Version control and collaborative development (Git)

Advantageous Skills

  • MLOps practices (model packaging deployment pipelines monitoring awareness)
  • Data governance principles (data quality lineage ownership compliance awareness)
  • Model evaluation performance tracking and drift detection concepts
  • Cloud-based data and ML environments (Azure / AWS)
  • Generative AI and LLM-based solution experience
  • AI agent or advanced prompting familiarity
  • Experience collaborating with observability and platform engineering teams
  • Domain-specific knowledge aligned to business use cases



Required Skills:

Excel SQL PowerBI AWS Quicksight