Junior Data Scientist

Job Classification

Job Requisition - 137324
Closing Date - 31 March 2025
Location - Johannesburg
Cluster - Nedbank Wealth - Division - Insurance 
Please Note: Preference will be given to applicants from Underrepresented Groups
 

Job Family

IT

Career Stream

Data Science 

Leadership Pipeline

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Junior Data Scientist that will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data manipulation techniques for large datasets, doing statistical and predictive analysis, developing and implementing machine learning techniques and building high quality recommendation systems integrated with our products to discover and communicate trends and insights.

Job Responsibilities

• Learn and implement appropriate programming language (R; Python; SQL) to investigate and solve business problems through data
• Represent and communicate findings/results through data visualisation techniques
• Derive actionable insights from preliminary client data investigations in an agile manner
• Perform clustering techniques to subset client data into demographics useful to business
• Fitting appropriate machine learning models to obtain distributions of products and identify impactful factors
• Use classification techniques and predictive strategies to pre-empt future client behaviours
• Utilize optimization techniques to enhance decision making (e.g. profit maximization), and implementing the above using qualitative data to enhance client experience
• Dashboards - building frameworks to make metrics available to non-analytical business units
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Develop interpersonal and business communication skills
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear, insightful and actionable manner
• To remain agile/versatile as business needs may change and develop rapidly

Job Responsibilities Continue

People Specification

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

BSc Statistics and Applied Mathematics, BSc Computer Science (with Statistical computing skills) or relevant statistical/quantitative based field of study

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

Minimum Experience Level

0 – 3 years of quantitative analytics/data science experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies