Data scientist - medical sector (sandton) r60 000 – r66 000 pm ctc

The Data Scientist will support the Data Science and Analytics team in creating and enabling data-driven measurement, insights, monitoring, and decision support. This individual will add value to business areas by providing insights, applying data science to inform and optimize decision making, and building automated predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions that support various business functions and address healthcare challenges.

The role requires involvement in the whole data science development process, including gaining a business understanding, defining the problem, data cleansing and feature engineering, business modeling and simulation, hypothesis generation and testing, machine learning model training, testing and refinement, and finally deployment and monitoring of predicted outcomes within the business solutions.