Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and deploy scalable machine learning models for real-world credit applications.
- Partner with Data Scientists and Decision Scientists to enhance model accuracy, efficiency, and performance.
- Develop, maintain, and improve machine learning pipelines and platforms.
- Apply big data frameworks (Hadoop, Kafka, PySpark) for large-scale data processing.
- Ensure models meet rigorous production standards for scalability, robustness, and maintainability.
- Leverage cloud platforms (AWS preferred) for deploying and managing AI solutions.
- Follow software engineering best practices, including version control (Git/GitHub) and peer reviews.
- Stay ahead of emerging trends in AI, ML, and big data to recommend innovative solutions.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Strong Python programming skills with experience in ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
- Solid SQL knowledge for data extraction, transformation, and optimisation.
- Experience with PySpark and distributed data processing.
- Hands-on exposure to big data frameworks (Hadoop, Kafka).
- Proven experience deploying and maintaining ML models in production environments.
- Proficiency in version control (Git/GitHub).
- AWS certification or strong AWS project experience (highly advantageous).
- Credit scoring: Logistic Regression, XGBoost, LightGBM
- Default prediction: Random Forest, GBMs, Logistic Regression
- Loan approval automation: Decision Trees, GBMs
- Fraud detection: Neural Networks, Isolation Forest, SVM
- Collections prioritisation: Clustering, Gradient Boosting
- Customer segmentation: K-means, DBSCAN, Hierarchical Clustering
The Reference Number for this position is NG60786 which is a Permanent, hybrid position in Cape Town offering a salary of up to R1.4mil CTC salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on *****@*****.co.za or call her for a chat on (***)***-**** to discuss this and other opportunities.
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