Entry Level Data Scientist Jobs – ABSA Bank

Job Title:   Data Scientist (Entry Level Jobs)

Organisation: ABSA Bank

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About US:

Absa Group Limited (formerly Barclays Bank UK) is 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.

 

Job Summary:  The Data Scientist will be responsible for finding trends in data sets and developing algorithms to solve key business challenges through value extraction from data

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Data model development (70%)

  • Organize and analyse raw data
  • Data mangling as part of pre-processing
  • Carry out exploratory data analysis to determine valuable trends within the data
  • Ingest data from different sources to increase power of application
  • Build algorithms to solve key problems or exploit opportunities including but not limited to:
    • Fraud detection,
    • Marketing personalization,
    • Credit decisioning
    • Customer churn
    • Product recommendations
    • Customer experience
    • Customer interaction
  • Develop applications to consume algorithms built

Relationship building (20%)

  • Working with IT personnel to extract and or create data sets
  • Working with different stakeholders to understand data needs and craft solutions

Training (10%)

  • Upskilling organizational resources in data approaches





Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The applicant for the ABSA Bank Data Scientist job placement should hold a Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join ABSA Group in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.

 

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