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
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