Decision Scientist

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Date: 20 Sep 2024

Location: Sandton, GT, ZA

Company: Capitec Bank Ltd

We're on the lookout for energetic, self-motivated individuals who share our passion for service in the banking industry. To be part of the journey, follow the steps below:

1. To see what life at Capitec is all about and complete a short assessment, please click here!

2.  Once you have completed the above finalize your application by clicking apply below

Purpose Statement

  • To solve business problems, create new products and services and improve processes through using the disciplinces of data science, translating active business data into usable strategic information.
  • To look at ways of analyzing and optimising data as it relates to a specific business area; framing data analysis in terms of the decision-making process for questions or business problems posed by a stakeholder. 
  • To help build and deliver Capitec's AI/Machine Learning strategy, enabling data-led and improved business decision making. Design quantitative advanced analytics models that answer business questions and/or discover opportunities for improvement, increased revenue or reduced costs. 

Candidate Requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Degree in Mathematics | Statistics | Data Science | Business Analytics | Engineering | Computer Science Plus 4+yrs relevant work experience. OR
  • Hons Degree in Mathematics | Statistics | Data Science | Business Analytics | Engineering | Computer Science Plus 3+yrs relevant work experience. OR
  • Masters Degree in Data Science or relevant discipline e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science.

 

Knowledge:

  • Functional business area (e.g. Credit) environment knowledge and experience
  • Regulatory requirements e.g. NCR, POPIA, SARB 
  • Business analysis, requirements gathering, translating into business requirement specifications and designing and delivering business solutions.
  • With modern software development best practices.
  • Working in cloud environments, e.g. Azure, AWS
  • Different operating systems / databases / programming language
  • Predictive modelling techniques (statistical and machine learning) and deployment 
  • Extracting, aggregating, cleaning and analysing data from large relational databases
  • Data Science lifecycle and applicable skills within 

 

Functional Skills:

  • Programming; Data base manipulation | Data Exploration Visualisation
  • Statistical model development
  • Advanced Computer literacy and programming (Office Suite, Working on different OS environments, e.g. working on remote Linux environment and dockerising machine learning models)
  • Building and deployment of models
  • ML language, for example SQL SAS
  • Version Control
  • Ability to productionalise and solution design
  • Ability to learn, understand and apply complex machine learning methodologies
  • Functional domain skill of the (e.g. credit) environment
  • Capability to identify and define and solve the business problem i.e. application of domain know how and problem solving.
  • Cloud computing (navigating on cloud vs on prem.)

 

Additional Information:

  • Clear credit and criminal record

Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.