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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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