Data Scientist, Data Analyst

Summary

Join Property24's Business Intelligence team in Cape Town (or remotely) as a Data Scientist. We seek enthusiastic, analytical, and creative individuals to contribute to South Africa's leading property website. You'll build predictive models for property and vehicle prices, identify data improvement opportunities, and create algorithms and predictive models. This role involves using machine learning, generating insightful reports, and collaborating with a dynamic team. There's significant scope for learning new technologies and working on exciting projects.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in BI with a strong focus on data science
• Possessing either a Data Scientist or Statistics qualification
• Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
• Experience with Excel, Tableau, SQL, and programming languages (i.e. Python)
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as clustering methods, neural networks, boosting algorithms etc
• Outstanding analytical skills - the ability to identify trends, patterns and insights from data

Responsibilities

• Building models to predict property and vehicle prices
• Proactively identify data improvement opportunities and insights to the business
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Create algorithms and build predictive models to enhance product offerings
• Use machine learning techniques to improve the quality of data
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and tracking of its performance
• Generating reports with insights from data sets and models to present to team

Preferred Qualifications

• Self-motivated
• A team player
• Have a positive and proactive approach
• Attention to detail and the ability to consistently meet deadlines
• Strong verbal and written communication skills – ability to easily communicate complex ideas in a way that is easy to understand
• An analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving