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3071 Data Scientist (Senior)
Imizizi
South Africa · On-site Contract Senior Yesterday
About the role
Role & 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
Qualifications/Experience
- Is outcome-driven, not model-driven
- Is comfortable working close to data pipelines and production constraints
- Can explain models and uncertainty to business stakeholders
- Collaborates naturally with platform, AI engineering, and observability teams
- Understands that trust, transparency, and governance are as important as accuracy
Skills
AIdata analysisdata pipelinesdata qualitydata visualisationmachine learningmodel evaluation
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