JOB TITLE: Data Scientist
JOB LOCATION: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
JOB DETAILS:
- They require the skills of a data science specialist with hands-on experience in planning, developing and management of predictive and prescriptive analytics projects/solutions.
- Provides balanced analytical research by turning raw data into valuable insights that help to drive the Bank’s actions and strategies.
- Also interprets and analyses data from multiple sources to come up with imaginative solutions to problems.
- Conduct analyses, formulate insights, and summarize and synthesize findings for presentation to the line of business management.
- Develop timely, innovative, and objective analysis which leads to fact-based solutions for strategic business issues.
Responsibilities
- Develop programming in R, SAS, SQL or similar analytical development tools
- Maintain knowledge in statistics, mathematics and/or comparable quantitative area of expertise
- Responsible for collaborating with analysts to facilitate the development and application of advanced analytic strategies and tactics
- Ascertain and apply strategies to identified business problems and existing organizational processes to provide leaders with insightful resources for decision-making and to increase sales, profit, market share, and achieve enterprise goals
- Establish parameters of ad hoc analyses by setting an appropriate timeline and work quality guidelines
- Assist in the development of the problem definition and hypothesis formulation process as it relates to the specific business environment
- Maintain an understanding of general business trends and requirements for the major area of support, and understand the link between analysis and business impact
- Utilize R, SAS, SQL, Tableau or other analytical development tools with large data sets to design
- analyses and measure key metrics
- Support line of business analytical needs with dashboard/report development through Tableau
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Team Lead, Data Science.
Keys Qualifications and Skills
- Strong STEM background – Bachelor’s Degree as well as practical experiences in Machine Learning, NLP, Deep Learning (Tensor flow), Statistical Modelling, Quantitative Analysis, Forecasting, Data Visualization
- 2-6 years of working experience as a data scientist or business data analyst, preferably in the financial services industry
- Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques
- Strong knowledge of and experience with reporting packages (Business Objects etc.), databases (SQL etc.), programming (XML, JavaScript, or ETL frameworks)
- Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS etc.)
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
- Proficient in office automation tools (e.g. Microsoft Office, etc)
- Proficient in SQL.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: [email protected] and copy: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: September 16, 2022
Job Features
Job Category | Data Management |