JOB ADVERTISEMENT

POSITION: DATA SCIENTIST

DEPARTMENT: TECHNOLOGY, DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS

BAND:  O4

ADVERT END DATE: February 11 ,2025

JOB PURPOSE: The role holder uses analytical, statistical, and programming skills to collect, analyze, and interpret large data sets for reporting and decision making

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Transfers data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis.
  • Creates new and improved existing experimental frameworks to collect data to ensure that data collected follows best practice and is of utmost quality.
  • Searches through large data sets for usable information to discover trends and patterns which support the Bank in the implementation of its’ goals.
  • Mines and analyzes data from the Banks’ databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
  • Creates reports and presentations for information and decision making
  • Assists with building tools to automate data collection by identifying valuable data sources and creating ways to automate the collection processes.
  • Builds predictive models and machine-learning algorithms

QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCE:

  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT related courses
  • Must have at least four (4) years’ experience in a similar role, with 2 years in the banking sector