Data Scientist Job in Cape Town, Gardens April 2017
Top media and communications – Data Scientist Job in Cape Town, Gardens April 2017
Current open jobs at Top media and communications in S.Africa 2017
New job position for Data Scientist in S.Africa 2017
| Remuneration: | Basic salary |
| Location: | Cape Town, Gardens |
| Education level: | Honours |
| Job level: | Junior/Mid |
| Reference: | #dataScientist |
Top Media and communications is looking for an exceptional data scientist to synthesize and leverage our massive dataset of web analytics and demographics to enhance our conferencing, awards and publications
This is a unique opportunity to join a new, multidisciplinary team of creative and passionate individuals destined to change the face of the media industry. We are focused on the company’s agenda, and work on high-impact projects utilising big data analytics and machine learning to improve our customer reach.
We’re a lean, flat and experimental team looking combining science and engineering to identify and inject high-value insights into media industry processes at their point of highest impact. The team will work in quick iterations, using the techniques and algorithms best suited for solving the challenging problems of media Industry.
What you’ll be doing:
You will advocate, evangelise and build data-fuelled products that help our customers reach. You’ll dig in and become an expert on our media datasets. You will provide insight into leading analytic practices, design and lead iterative learning and development cycles, and ultimately produce new and creative analytic solutions that will become part of our core deliverables.
You will work with cross-functional team members to identify and prioritise actionable, high-impact insights across a variety of core business areas. You will lead applied analytics initiatives that are leveraged across the breadth of our solutions for <INDUSTRY>. You will research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms to analyse diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes.
As our data scientist, you will provide expertise on mathematical concepts for the broader applied analytics team and inspire the adoption of advanced analytics and data science across the entire breadth of our organisation.
Who we’re looking for:
You have a Ph.D. or Master’s Degree in operations research, applied statistics, data mining, machine learning, physics or a related quantitative discipline. You have a deep understanding of statistical and predictive modelling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimisation algorithms.
With 2-4 years of experience delivering world-class data science outcomes, you solve complex analytical problems using quantitative approaches with your unique blend of analytical, mathematical and technical skills.
You’re passionate about asking and answering questions in large datasets, and you are able to communicate that passion to product managers and engineers. You have a keen desire to solve business problems, and live to find patterns and insights within structured and unstructured data. You propose analytics strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of everyone around you.
You are expert in analysing large, complex, multi-dimensional datasets with a variety of tools. You are accomplished in the use of statistical analysis environments such as R, MATLAB, SPSS or SAS. You have experience with BI tools such as Tableau and Microstrategy. You’re as comfortable with relational databases as you are with Hadoop-based data mining frameworks. You are familiar with SQL, Python, Java and C/C++.
You desire a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative engineering environment. You love learning, data, scale and agility. You excel at making complex concepts simple and easy to understand by those around you. You’re driven to show the world the power of applied analytics.
Contact details
Bianca
Top media and communications
0860009590
bianca@topco.co.za