Data Scientist

Job Description:

As a Data Scientist, your mission is to execute Capitec’s AI strategy, securing our competitive advantage in this ever-evolving industry. You’ll be responsible for crafting predictive models and intelligent algorithms to decipher the critical drivers of business performance, enabling more informed decision-making at every level.

Job Requirements:

• Capitec Data Product Life Cycle
• Underlying theory and application of machine learning models; able to understand underlying principles and theory and be able to teach others.
• Ethical AI design principle
• Deep understanding of one or more state of the art principles and techniques in at least one discipline of data science, e.g., NLP, Deep Learning etc. and can teach to others
• Familiarity with modern deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc)
• Capitec Data Science lifecycle
• Masters Degree in Information Technology – Computer Science or Statistics
• Best practices for data science such as reusability, reproducibility, continuous monitoring, etc
• Honours Degree