Data Scientist Full Time Permanent

Data Scientist – Johannesburg

A Data Scientist / Data Analyst position is available in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

PBT Group has an opportunity for Data Scientists / Data Engineers.

Duties – Data Scientist / Data Analyst:

• Plan and analyse complex business requirements and implement technology enabled solutions to address multi-discipline business opportunities/problems.
• Conduct planning, analysis and design activities in conjunction with other development specialists.
• Participate in analysis of complex business opportunities/problems to deliver designs meeting requirements.
• Participate in estimation of tasks and assist in the development of project plans.
• Code or makes modifications to programs of high complexity, according to specifications.
• Conduct medium to high complexity evaluations for product releases, stand-alone products, etc.
• Conduct walkthroughs and quality review of deliverables.
• Knowledge of design and developing end-to-end data acquisition processes to be used in population of data warehouse/data marts and/or in the creation of interfaces.
• Provide guidance and mentoring on business intelligence technology and systems in general, especially in the area of ETL processes.
• Participate in the formulation of standards to support the data acquisition development process.
• Design, develop and execute complex data acquisition or interface routines using ETL tool, ensuring that business and technical requirements are met.
• Ensure compliance with established policies, standards and methodologies.

Required Skills – Data Scientist / Data Analyst:

• SAP, Cloud (preferably Azure), Databricks, SQL, Docker, Spark, Rshiny, PowerBI, Git
• Intimate knowledge of source systems as well as a basic understanding of dimensional models
• Conventional database and data warehouse modeling skills, in order to understand the data warehouse data models
• A sound knowledge of the programming language used to write the data staging programs or ETL tool
• A sound knowledge of SQL, or the language used to access the source databases and the data warehouse from the data staging programs or ETL tool
• A sound knowledge of the capabilities of the ETL tools, to know what their capabilities and shortcomings are – in order to exploit or avoid those aspects in the data staging programs
• Pride of work, thoroughness and attention to detail

Required Qualifications / Training – Data Scientist / Data Analyst:

• Course on the ETL / related toolset
• Relevant data warehouse and BI solution training is essential
• B.Sc. or related degree is advantageous
• 2+ years programming experience.

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