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Senior Data Scientist – AI Strategy
Job Location:
Job Location:
Midrand - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
22 August 2026 (19 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
19 November 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Our client in the Telecoms sector is seeking a Senior Data Scientist AI Strategy on a contract duration of 12 months.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Technical Skills
Candidates should demonstrate practical experience in:
Experience should include:
Strong experience in:
Additional experience in the following would be advantageous:
The successful consultant should demonstrate the ability to:
Applicants should possess:
Core Technical Skills
Candidates should demonstrate practical experience in:
- Generative AI platforms.
- Large Language Models.
- Retrieval Augmented Generation.
- Prompt Engineering.
- Vector databases.
- AI evaluation frameworks.
- Agentic AI solutions.
- AI workflow automation.
- API integration.
- Responsible AI.
- AI governance.
- LLM observability.
Experience should include:
- Python development.
- FastAPI or Flask.
- Cloud platforms (AWS Azure or Google Cloud).
- AI deployment pipelines.
- Real-time processing.
- Batch processing.
- Enterprise system integration.
Strong experience in:
- Machine Learning.
- Classification.
- Regression.
- Clustering.
- Natural Language Processing.
- SQL.
- PySpark.
- Data engineering.
Additional experience in the following would be advantageous:
- LangGraph
- CrewAI
- AutoGen
- Conversational AI platforms
- Speech analytics
- Voice analytics
- Telecommunications industry
- Customer Experience (CX)
- Enterprise AI implementation
The successful consultant should demonstrate the ability to:
- Deliver enterprise-ready AI solutions.
- Build production-grade Generative AI applications.
- Design intelligent autonomous AI systems.
- Improve customer experience through AI.
- Increase operational efficiency.
- Translate technical capability into measurable business value.
Applicants should possess:
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science Mathematics Statistics Artificial Intelligence Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum five years experience in Data Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or Big Data.
- Proven experience delivering production AI solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Generative AI technologies.
- Experience with LLMOps and MLOps.
- Advanced Python programming skills.
- SQL and PySpark experience.
- Knowledge of cloud-native AI deployment.
- Docker and Kubernetes experience.
- Experience working with APIs.
- Strong understanding of traditional machine learning techniques.
- Experience with AI visualisation and reporting tools.
- Strong analytical thinking.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Experience mentoring technical teams.
- Ability to work independently within agile environments.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
With 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Financial Services industry in Africa and the Middle East, we are experts at supporting our clients through their digital transformation journeys. We believe in blending traditional methods with cutting-edge strategies to drive ... View more
