Data Scientist

Permanent22 hours ago
Employment Information
Key Responsibilities:
  • Creation, validation and sourcing of data products from both geographic and non-geographic data that supports the objectives of the respective projectsthat the incumbent has been assigned to.
  • The development of data pipelines through processing algorithms
  • Creation, testing, and deployment of user end tools to search for and access data and other standalone user interfaces.
  • Co-development of a multi-criteria decision analysis platforms using a combination of data types and mainstream libraries for decision support.
  • Build production-quality data pipelines to add value to data streams and deploy these in standardised data services.
  • Technical leadership in medium to large scale data science projects.
  • Co-development of project proposals.
  • Create training manuals and reports for any products developed.
  • Science engagement, Stakeholder engagement and Co-author scientific presentations.
  • Contribute to the SAEON uLwazi node publication and conference presentation effort.
  • Engagement with internal and external staff to ensure delivery
Key Requirements:
Qualification:
  • NQF 9 - Masters in Computer science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Informatics or Engineering
  • PhD (NQF 10) will be advantageous
Experience:
  • 5 years of relevant post-qualification work experience in coding, geospatial data analysis and classification techniques
Knowledge:
  • Familiarity with spatial and multidimensional data technologies, data, and services, including management skills;
  • Experience in relational databases, machine learning, statistics, and programming
  • Some background in supervised and unsupervised classification techniques
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages.
  • Skills
  • Data visualisation
  • Communication skills
  • Project management
  • Data warehousing
  • Data processing
  • Machine learning concepts
  • Algorithms for developing models.
Job location
Data Scientist
South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
Data Scientist
1 Vacancy-Permanent
56 Florence St, Colbyn, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa