Data Scientist

Location:	Johannesburg
Type:	Contract
Reference:	#NG57915
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

One of Africa’s largest English-language news publishers is in the market for a data scientist with a specialist skill set within the business. The main purpose of the role is to create and facilitate appropriate access to data for key stakeholders creating visibility for the business, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance.

Responsibilities:

• Modelling of complex business problems.
• Identifying opportunities to improve business processes.
• Building tailor-made SQL solutions for monitoring and automation of controls.
• Development of exception reports and Power BI dashboards for stakeholders in the business.
• Utilising Store procedures to create routines that maintain reporting and automated controls.
• Identify and build appropriate models/other solutions for use in the company's operations.
• Creating logic links between data from various systems to facilitate cross-system reporting.
• Automation of controls in the business processes.       
• Design and implement automated data comparisons to trigger certain processes.
• Simplifying complex manual processes into simple automated (or semi-automated) processes.
• Engaging with stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree in statistics/computer science/ engineering/ mathematics (or a combination of)
• 4 – 6 years of relevant experience
• Expert-level knowledge of SQL
• Advanced EXCEL
• Experience using Power BI or similar tools
• Visual Studio
• Python
• SQL
• Power BI
• Machine learning
• Google Cloud
• Google Certs (Google Analytics)

The reference number for this position is NG57915 which is a Contract position in Johannesburg offering a salary of R700,000 up to R900,000 CTC salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula at az.oc.egreM-e@galuhtukon or call her for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT recruitment is a niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right people with the right companies, in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge IT website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.

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Posted on 02 Sep 11:55, Closing date 1 Nov