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Requirements
Minimum NQF level 6 qualification in either. National Diploma/Degree: IT; Business Applications; Software Development; Technical Programming. Mathematical Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or other relevant & equivalent IT related qualifications. Relevant data scientist/analysis Certificates would be advantageous like: Big Data; Data Analysis & Modelling (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, seaborn, SciPy); Machine learning and Deep Learning (Sklearn, TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch); Data visualization (Power BI, Tableau); Coding/IDEs (Python, Jupyter, Spyder, Pycharm, R programming).
Duties
Providing functional and technical support for departmental systems. Proving technical/functional. Application support for the various designated applications/systems including the Departmental Intranet & Website. Proving help-desk support services for the all users and handling help-desk escalations. Understand designated applications/systems business functionality; and use technical and analytical expertise to locate and resolve applications/systems related problems. Provide system related advisory service to departmental users and help-desk services. Providing training for users for designated systems. Provide data analytic/analysis related services. Work closely with business to identify issues and use data to propose solutions for effective decision making Build algorithms and design experiments to merge, manage, interrogate, and extract data to supply tailored reports to colleagues, customers, or the wider organisation. Use machine learning tools and statistical techniques to produce solutions to problems and dashboards for internal stakeholders. Test data mining models to select the most appropriate ones for use on identified projects or business units. Maintain clear and coherent communication, both verbal and written, to understand data needs and report results. Assess the effectiveness of data sources and data-gathering techniques and improve data collection methods. Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms for the various business units. Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions. This post is earmarked for persons with disabilities.