Data Scientist (Senior)

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Pretoria, City of Tshwane, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Senior level
Agency • Information Technology • Professional Services
The Role
Translate business problems into AI-enabled solutions by performing EDA, building data pipelines, developing and validating machine learning models, supporting operational data workflows, producing dashboards and reports, and collaborating with engineering and platform teams to productionize solutions while upholding data governance and responsible AI practices.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Senior Data Scientist will be responsible for translating business problems into data-driven and AI-enabled solutions. The role requires strong expertise in data analysis, machine learning, data engineering, and stakeholder engagement, while working closely with data engineering, AI platform, and observability teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Translate business problems into data-driven and AI-enabled solutions
  • Perform exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns, issues, and opportunities
  • Design, build, and maintain data pipelines to support analytics and modelling use cases
  • Develop, train, evaluate, and iterate on machine learning and AI models
  • Apply appropriate model evaluation techniques and define success metrics
  • Support operational data workflows and resolve day-to-day data processing issues when required
  • Produce clear dashboards, reports, and visualisations for stakeholders
  • Communicate insights, model behaviour, and recommendations to both technical and business audiences
  • Collaborate closely with data engineering, AI platform, and observability teams to productionise solutions
  • Contribute to best practices around data quality, governance, and responsible use of AI

Requirements

Essential Skills

  • Excel, SQL, PowerBI, AWS and quicksight
  • Data analysis, exploration, and feature engineering (EDA)
  • Strong applied statistics and machine learning foundations
  • Python-based data science and ML stack (e.g. pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch / TensorFlow)
  • Data engineering skills: ETL design, batch and streaming data processing
  • Experience with distributed data systems (e.g. Kafka, Spark or equivalent)
  • SQL and structured / semi-structured data querying
  • Experiment design, model evaluation, and validation techniques
  • Dashboarding, reporting, and data visualisation
  • Business problem translation and requirements understanding
  • Version control and collaborative development (Git)

Advantageous Skills

  • MLOps practices (model packaging, deployment pipelines, monitoring awareness)
  • Data governance principles (data quality, lineage, ownership, compliance awareness)
  • Model evaluation, performance tracking, and drift detection concepts
  • Cloud-based data and ML environments (Azure / AWS)
  • Generative AI and LLM-based solution experience
  • AI agent or advanced prompting familiarity
  • Experience collaborating with observability and platform engineering teams
  • Domain-specific knowledge aligned to business use cases


Skills Required

  • Excel
  • SQL
  • Power BI
  • AWS
  • QuickSight
  • Data analysis, exploration, and feature engineering (EDA)
  • Applied statistics and machine learning foundations
  • Python
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • scikit-learn
  • PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Data engineering: ETL design, batch and streaming data processing
  • Distributed data systems (e.g., Kafka, Spark)
  • Experiment design, model evaluation, and validation techniques
  • Dashboarding, reporting, and data visualization
  • Business problem translation and requirements understanding
  • Version control and collaborative development (Git)
  • MLOps practices (model packaging, deployment pipelines, monitoring)
  • Data governance principles (quality, lineage, ownership, compliance)
  • Model performance tracking and drift detection
  • Cloud-based data and ML environments (Azure/AWS)
  • Generative AI and LLM-based solution experience
  • AI agent or advanced prompting familiarity
  • Experience collaborating with observability and platform engineering teams
  • Domain-specific knowledge aligned to business use cases
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Year Founded: 2013

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Sabenza IT is a niche recruitment company specializing in Information Technology, SAP, Finance, and Engineering roles, with over 23 years of experience.

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