RECRUITMENT DIGITAL:Junior – Mid Data Scientist OPPORTUNITY
One of the largest worldwide market research agencies is looking for a data scientist to join their Cape Town office. The company provides insights that help their clients make impactful decisions that drive growth.
This person will be involved in a variety of advanced data and infrastructure initiatives. Data initiatives would include social media scraping and modelling, time series analysis, text mining, data integration and machine learning.
In addition, they would work on the systems behind these applications by interfacing with APIs and building data visualisations, primarily focused on defining, creating and refining best practice methodologies in these areas and helping us scale these approaches across the business.
Requirements
Qualifications (minimum):
Bachelors degree (BSc most likely) with Mathematics (Statistics most likely), or a degree in Computer Science or related field.
Data analysis:
Familiarity with defining data models
Expertise in multivariate analysis
Experience building machine-learning applications
Experience in processing text data using NLP and other techniques
Experience with data mining algorithms and decision trees
Experience and ability to work in “R” and Python essential.
Programming and infrastructure:
Comfortable with coding and learning programming languages
Experience working with large datasets/databases (SQL or similar) and creating database-driven web applications
Coding expertise in Python or similar open source software
Experience interacting with third party APIs e.g. Twitter, Facebook
Experience in implementation of Java applications and libraries
Familiarity with manipulating NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra)
Familiarity with scaling data storage and processing e.g. via cloud services
Experience with setup and maintenance of web servers/apps
Experience with data visualisation in R and Python/D3
Advantageous
Familiarity with practicalities of processing large datasets e.g. processing in memory vs. locally, processing in batches (e.g. Hadoop), processing on the cloud, etc.
Personal Skills/Attributes
Keen to learn and engage with new methodologies
Ability to convert data and meta-data into usable metrics and measurements
Strategic, lateral and critical thinking
Communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate to a non-technical audience
Comfortable working with a geographically distributed team
Posted on 16 Apr 11:42
Contact details
Ross
Recruit Digital
021 424 0626
ross@recruitdigital.co.za
