Senior Data Scientist

Join a fun and exciting data science team who are passionate about what they do. We work hard and play hard and have an impact on our customers. We have many solutions in production, and we are always learning.

Requirements

• Design and develop high-quality, reusable features for business-critical ML models.
• Apply advanced machine learning techniques to solve complex business problems.
• Conduct data discovery and exploratory analysis to identify valuable features and patterns.
• Monitor and continuously improve deployed models, ensuring performance, fairness, and ethical compliance.
• Implement design of experiments, hypothesis testing, and model validation strategies.
• Build and maintain scalable, production-grade data pipelines for feature computation and model training.
• Transform raw data into clean, structured, analytics-ready datasets using modern data engineering tools.
• Engineer real-time and batch data workflows to support ML and analytics use cases.
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and validation processes to ensure reliability and trust in analytical outputs.
• Optimize data workflows for performance, cost-efficiency, and maintainability across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Translate complex data narratives into actionable business insights.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver data-driven solutions.
• Architect analytical systems that support business strategy, objectives, and values.
• Contribute to use case roadmaps and prioritization aligned with strategic goals.
• Stay abreast of developments in ML, analytics engineering, and data infrastructure to drive innovation.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to quality assurance across the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data science, engineering, BI, and business teams.
• Promote ethical AI practices and ensure models in production are aligned with responsible AI principles.
• Support Nedbank’s culture-building and corporate responsibility initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous benefits package
• Opportunities for professional growth and development