Data Scientist

About the role

Standard Bank Group, an Africa-focused financial services group, is hiring a full-time Data Scientist in Gaborone. The role applies data mining and statistical analysis to large structured and unstructured data sets, turning data into information that supports sound business decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Apply data mining techniques and conduct statistical analysis on large structured and unstructured data sets to understand and analyse phenomena.
• Model business problems using statistical, algorithmic, machine learning and visualisation techniques.
• Work closely with clients, data and technology teams to turn data into critical information for business decisions.

Required profile

• First degree in Information Studies or Information Technology.
• 3-4 years of experience in data monetisation, data and analytics, and data science.
• Experience with unstructured data (e.g. streams, images) and understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data.
• Proven software and software engineering development experience.
• Understanding of financial services data processes, systems and products.
• Project management experience.

Required skills

• Using data mining to discover patterns in large datasets and implementing standard and proprietary algorithms.
• Common data science toolkits such as SAS, R and SPSS.
• Data visualisation tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
• Building models such as credit scoring, propensity models and churn.