We are currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to join a major project within the medical/healthcare sector. The successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering advanced data science solutions, analytics, and machine learning capabilities within a cloud-based environment.
This opportunity is ideal for an experienced Data Scientist with strong Azure cloud expertise, particularly within Azure Databricks, who can contribute immediately to a fast-paced and technically driven project environment.
The individual must be available to onboard within the next 2 weeks.
BenefitsKey Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy advanced data science and machine learning solutions
- Work with large, complex healthcare and medical datasets
- Build and optimize data pipelines and analytical models within Azure Databricks
- Perform data cleansing, transformation, feature engineering, and predictive analytics
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, and project managers to define data-driven solutions
- Develop dashboards, reporting models, and actionable insights for business decision-making
- Ensure data governance, quality, and compliance within the medical sector environment
- Contribute to AI/ML model deployment and monitoring processes
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across analytics and cloud platforms
- Proven experience as a Senior Data Scientist
- Strong hands-on expertise with Azure Databricks (essential)
- Advanced experience with:
- Python
- SQL
- Machine Learning frameworks
- Data modelling and analytics
- Python
- Experience working within Azure cloud environments
- Strong understanding of data engineering and big data concepts
- Ability to work independently within a hybrid project environment
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Experience within the healthcare or medical sector will be advantageous
Essential
- Azure Databricks
- Microsoft Azure
- Python
- SQL
- Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics
- Data Visualization & Reporting
- Data Pipelines & ETL Processes
- AI/ML deployment experience
- Power BI
- Healthcare/Medical sector exposure
- MLOps knowledge
- Strong analytical thinking
- Problem-solving ability
- Stakeholder engagement
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Self-management and accountability
- Immediate availability preferred
- Candidates must be able to work onsite in Midrand when required
- This is a high-impact project within the medical sector with potential extension based on project requirements
Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Senior Data Scientist
- Strong hands-on expertise with Azure Databricks
- Advanced experience with Python, SQL, and Machine Learning frameworks
- Experience working within Azure cloud environments
- Strong understanding of data engineering and big data concepts
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
What We Do
Blue Pearl is a market-leading CLOUD Solutions developer with extensive knowledge and insight into the latest technologies, standardised processes, advanced technical capabilities and consulting processes available, ensuring wholistic success for our clientele. We offer professional consulting to compliment your business strategy and overall management and make it our priority to add value to any business by listening, analysing and creating a conducive solution that will empower our client. We implement a Data Analysis Process that includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the end-goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and relevant information to support your decision-making. Your business cannot afford not to engage with us, allowing our data analysis to play a role in making your business decisions more scientific and helping your business achieve effective operation. Blue Pearl’s team of experts include BI strategists, BI analysts, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Scientists, Implementation and Development experts. With the use of BI, Analytics and Big Data, we effectively partner with our customers on their mission to achieve a competitive business advantage and real ROI from the structured information we collect.
