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Join Our Team: Data Scientist – Banking at Capitec
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Job Description:
Purpose Statement
As a Data Scientist at Capitec, you will be responsible for:
- Solving business problems and creating new products and services using data science, quantitative analysis, and traditional scoring techniques
- Analyzing and optimizing data to inform business decisions
- Building and delivering AI strategies to improve business decision-making
- Designing quantitative advanced analytics models to answer business questions and discover opportunities for improvement
Requirements:
Education:
- Minimum:
- Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics
- Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
- Ideal/Preferred:
- Masters Degree in Mathematics or Statistics
Experience and Knowledge:
- Minimum:
- At least 2 years’ work experience in an analytical science role
- Statistical model development and deployment
- Working in Cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, large relational databases)
- Machine Learning language (e.g., Python or SAS Viya) proficiency
- Basic business know-how and knowledge of relational database technologies
- Ideal:
- Financial / Banking sector experience
- Retail Credit environment / industry experience
- Scorecard development and/or monitoring
Skills:
- Numerical Reasoning skills
- Researching skills
- Analytical Skills
- Problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Planning, organising and coordination skills
- Attention to Detail
- Communications Skills
- Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
Additional Information:
- Clear criminal and credit record
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Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.
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