Introduction
Capitec Bank is a leading South African retail bank that focuses on essential banking services and provides innovative transacting, savings, insurance and unsecured lending products to individuals. Capitec's mission is to make banking simple and transparent to help clients - regardless of their level of income or assets - improve their financial lives through a single solution, called Global One.
Duties & Responsibilities
Purpose Statement
- To deliver the AI strategy to ensure Capitec can compete in a changing landscape where data science is akey future-oriented strategic differentiator.
- To design and implement predictive models or intelligent algorithms to better understand the drivers ofbusiness performance and enable improved management decision-making.
Experience
Minimum:
- Experience in data science, machine learning and deployment of developed solutions
- Business analysis and requirements gathering
- Reproducible coding experience
- Working with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience in at least one ML language
Ideal:
- Deliver predictive models into a production environment
Knowledge
Minimum:
- Have textbook data science knowledge - a solid understanding of state-of-the-art principles andtechniques in at least one discipline of data science, e.g., NLP, Deep Learning etc.
- Solution and experimental design for model development
- Machine learning development and underlying theory and assumptions of techniques.
- Predictive modelling techniques (statistical and machine learning) and deployment
- Source control systems e.g., Git, Bitbucket, or similar
- Relational database technologies
- Data Science lifecycle and applicable skills within
Ideal:
- Familiarity with modern deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, etc)
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Honours Degree in Data Science or Information Technology - Computer Science
Ideal:
- Masters Degree in Data Science
Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
- Researching skills
- Planning, organising and coordination skills
Additional Information
- Clear criminal and credit record
