Data Scientist
Location: Kampala – Uganda
Organization details
Our esteemed client in the banking sector
Number of vacancies: 1 Sector: Private sector Industry: Banking ,IT , ,Fintech

Knowledge, Skills & Competences
• Critical thinking
• Can fill in the gaps for user blind spots

Responsibilities
• Responsible for finding trends in data sets and developing algorithms to solve key business challenges through value extraction from data
Accountability: Data model development (70%)
• Organize and analyse raw data
• Data mangling as part of pre-processing
• Carry out exploratory data analysis to determine valuable trends within the data
• Ingest data from different sources to increase power of application
• Build algorithms to solve key problems or exploit opportunities including but not limited to:
• Fraud detection
• Marketing personalisation
• Credit decisioning
• Customer churn
• Product recommendations
• Customer experience
• Customer interaction
• Develop applications to consume algorithms built
Accountability: Relationship building (20%)
• Working with IT personnel to extract and or create data sets
• Working with different stakeholders to understand data needs and craft solutions
Accountability: Training (10%)
• Upskilling organizational resources in data approaches

Qualifications
• Application development
• Statistical analysis
• Data base query languages
• Data science languages including python and R
Details of experience
• At least 5 Years of Experience in a similar role