Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time.With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Work collaboratively across the business area to assess the key business challenges that can be solved by data & translate these requirements into data driven solutions for the area. Work on high value & high complexity data science problems & leverage deep data science expertise in advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering &predictive modeling, storytelling, distributed computing & data visualization, machine learning tools & data intuition to operationalize & continuously improve data solutions that deliver relevant, quality assured, accurate & commercially impactful data to the business. Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Work collaboratively across the business area to assess the key business challenges that can be solved by data & translate these requirements into data driven solutions for the area. Work on high value & high complexity data science problems & leverage deep data science expertise in advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering &predictive modeling, storytelling, distributed computing & data visualization, machine learning tools & data intuition to operationalize & continuously improve data solutions that deliver relevant, quality assured, accurate & commercially impactful data to the business.Job Description Project Work (70%)Translate the business challenges into key questions that can be solved with data solutionsParticipate in the data acquisition, data mining, and data project management duties relating to projectsDesign fit for purpose data interpretation & analysis approaches & create customized data models, algorithms, machine learning tools and recommendation engines to achieve the desired business outcomeUse advanced data science skills to mine & interpret data. These include but are not limited to advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, distributed computing, machine learning tools & data intuition.Be able to understand, build and interpret results of unsupervised and semi-supervised learning methodologies.Build and maintain analytical tools to generate insights, predict behavior and recognize patternsWork with team on understanding requirements based and translate these into trackable analytical problems relaying results in common business language with decision making implicationsAnalyze data across multiple systems and formats to provide analytics and information that provides integrated views necessary for project outcomes and deliver for the business and the customerProactively partner the data Analytics teams to assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources & data gathering techniquesProactively stay ahead of the curve on data science trends & leading practice data science tools and techniques & transition the organization to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of dataDeliver on time & on budget (always)Data Governance and Control (20%)Understand frameworks, sources of data and data flowsEnsure accuracy of data collected and ensure data governance required is met and adhered toDrive data governance responsibilities across all pieces of workStakeholder Management (10%)Ensure data models and design are communicated to and understood by Business StakeholdersProvide business-oriented insights and articulate how solutions can support thesePlay key role in leadership of Change projects in driving data deliverables and their impact in achieving project outcomes Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised About UsTruly AfricanWe are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.
Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa's largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.
We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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