310 Data Scientist jobs in Gauteng

As a Data Scientist you will have exposure to many aspects of the business, and make direct impact to the bottom line. You will be accountable for interfacing with various teams throughout the business to derive a deep understanding of underlying phenomena that impact portfolio performance, develop better features to improve the performance of our predictive models, and better understand the links between client interventions and behaviour. You will also innovate to improve processes, algorithms, methods, product constructs, designs, and analyse experiments to learn about our clients and explore opportunities for portfolio improvement such as growth, stability, and revenue.

You will

• Analyse, transform, augment and build datasets to convert financial and behavioural data into features and dimensions that allow us to more easily and accurately extract insights.
• Use your coding skills to contribute to our team tooling and automate processes as much as possible.
• Design and develop models of our real world systems and client behaviours to help inform our decision making. This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, simulating products or systems, testing decline strategies, and optimising client experience.
• Analyse end user requirements to understand and communicate what our stakeholders (for example, fellow analysts, portfolio managers, or partners) need, and what we can deliver to match those expectations.
• Derive and communicate insights to our stakeholders.

You will need

• A bachelor's degree with a strong quantitative component (e.g. Economics, Physics, Engineering, Software engineering, etc.).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience filling a similar role in Finance & Technology.
• Strong data wrangling skills using SQL and coding in python.
• An ability to interpret problems, and simplify them to their essentials.
• The desire to innovate, be creative and work on challenging problems.

Bonus if you have

• Experience working in fintech, specifically with lending products.
• Experience working with cloud computing.
• Personal projects you have worked on that you can showcase.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in communicating complex concepts simply and clearly.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

You will be based in South Africa. We operate on a remote first working approach where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you have access to a reliable connection and are set up to work remotely.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

As a Data Scientist you will have exposure to many aspects of the business, and make direct impact to the bottom line. You will be accountable for interfacing with various teams throughout the business to derive a deep understanding of underlying phenomena that impact portfolio performance, develop better features to improve the performance of our predictive models, and better understand the links between client interventions and behaviour. You will also innovate to improve processes, algorithms, methods, product constructs, designs, and analyse experiments to learn about our clients and explore opportunities for portfolio improvement such as growth, stability, and revenue.

You will

• Analyse, transform, augment and build datasets to convert financial and behavioural data into features and dimensions that allow us to more easily and accurately extract insights.
• Use your coding skills to contribute to our team tooling and automate processes as much as possible.
• Design and develop models of our real world systems and client behaviours to help inform our decision making. This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, simulating products or systems, testing decline strategies, and optimising client experience.
• Analyse end user requirements to understand and communicate what our stakeholders (for example, fellow analysts, portfolio managers, or partners) need, and what we can deliver to match those expectations.
• Derive and communicate insights to our stakeholders.

You will need

• A bachelor's degree with a strong quantitative component (e.g. Economics, Physics, Engineering, Software engineering, etc.).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience filling a similar role in Finance & Technology.
• Strong data wrangling skills using SQL and coding in python.
• An ability to interpret problems, and simplify them to their essentials.
• The desire to innovate, be creative and work on challenging problems.

Bonus if you have

• Experience working in fintech, specifically with lending products.
• Experience working with cloud computing.
• Personal projects you have worked on that you can showcase.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in communicating complex concepts simply and clearly.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

You will be based in South Africa. We operate on a remote first working approach where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you have access to a reliable connection and are set up to work remotely.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

As a Data Scientist you will have exposure to many aspects of the business, and make direct impact to the bottom line. You will be accountable for interfacing with various teams throughout the business to derive a deep understanding of underlying phenomena that impact portfolio performance, develop better features to improve the performance of our predictive models, and better understand the links between client interventions and behaviour. You will also innovate to improve processes, algorithms, methods, product constructs, designs, and analyse experiments to learn about our clients and explore opportunities for portfolio improvement such as growth, stability, and revenue.

You will

• Analyse, transform, augment and build datasets to convert financial and behavioural data into features and dimensions that allow us to more easily and accurately extract insights.
• Use your coding skills to contribute to our team tooling and automate processes as much as possible.
• Design and develop models of our real world systems and client behaviours to help inform our decision making. This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, simulating products or systems, testing decline strategies, and optimising client experience.
• Analyse end user requirements to understand and communicate what our stakeholders (for example, fellow analysts, portfolio managers, or partners) need, and what we can deliver to match those expectations.
• Derive and communicate insights to our stakeholders.

You will need

• A bachelor's degree with a strong quantitative component (e.g. Economics, Physics, Engineering, Software engineering, etc.).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience filling a similar role in Finance & Technology.
• Strong data wrangling skills using SQL and coding in python.
• An ability to interpret problems, and simplify them to their essentials.
• The desire to innovate, be creative and work on challenging problems.

Bonus if you have

• Experience working in fintech, specifically with lending products.
• Experience working with cloud computing.
• Personal projects you have worked on that you can showcase.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in communicating complex concepts simply and clearly.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

You will be based in South Africa. We operate on a remote first working approach where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you have access to a reliable connection and are set up to work remotely.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

As a Data Scientist you will have exposure to many aspects of the business, and make direct impact to the bottom line. You will be accountable for interfacing with various teams throughout the business to derive a deep understanding of underlying phenomena that impact portfolio performance, develop better features to improve the performance of our predictive models, and better understand the links between client interventions and behaviour. You will also innovate to improve processes, algorithms, methods, product constructs, designs, and analyse experiments to learn about our clients and explore opportunities for portfolio improvement such as growth, stability, and revenue.

You will

• Analyse, transform, augment and build datasets to convert financial and behavioural data into features and dimensions that allow us to more easily and accurately extract insights.
• Use your coding skills to contribute to our team tooling and automate processes as much as possible.
• Design and develop models of our real world systems and client behaviours to help inform our decision making. This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, simulating products or systems, testing decline strategies, and optimising client experience.
• Analyse end user requirements to understand and communicate what our stakeholders (for example, fellow analysts, portfolio managers, or partners) need, and what we can deliver to match those expectations.
• Derive and communicate insights to our stakeholders.

You will need

• A bachelor's degree with a strong quantitative component (e.g. Economics, Physics, Engineering, Software engineering, etc.).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience filling a similar role in Finance & Technology.
• Strong data wrangling skills using SQL and coding in python.
• An ability to interpret problems, and simplify them to their essentials.
• The desire to innovate, be creative and work on challenging problems.

Bonus if you have

• Experience working in fintech, specifically with lending products.
• Experience working with cloud computing.
• Personal projects you have worked on that you can showcase.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in communicating complex concepts simply and clearly.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

You will be based in South Africa. We operate on a remote first working approach where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you have access to a reliable connection and are set up to work remotely.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

This is a remote position.

Ringier Data Technology Department is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team.

Our team leverages the latest models to predict financial figures or the best price for an advertisement, create user-facing chatbots and much more applications. We’re also working with cutting-edge technologies, like LLMs, trying to create applications that will drastically increase the visibility of Ringier’s brands.

• You work with various datasets from different Ringier companies in different business divisions across publishing and marketplaces and in different regions across continents.
• You choose, improve, and apply various methods from statistics, machine, and deep learning technologies in order to solve business problems.
• You model the data of our users, their interests and online behaviour as well as the data of the different Ringier’s business units in order to serve the business demands, and enable the future business models.
• You work closely with cross-functional teams to develop prototypes and products for cross-portfolio use cases.
• You communicate and visualise the value of data by describing the findings or the way how techniques work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You keep closely following research and engineering developments mostly in the NLP field, like HuggingFace, LLMs roll in the relevant technologies and methodologies to keep our modern technology landscape up to date.

• You have a degree (MS, Ph.D.) in computer science, statistics, mathematics or a comparable degree program or equivalent work experience.
• You have a strong record in applying Machine Learning to real-world datasets in a productive environment and are familiar with the main ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, XGBoost, LightGBM, …) and have strong experience in Python.
• You have worked with LLMs and frameworks like Langchain. You know the best practices and keep following the field so that you use the latest ones.
• You have deep knowledge of the latest advances in the NLP domain.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry is a plus.
• Experience in software development and confidence in developing the full ML model lifecycle from research to production ensuring aspects such as reproducibility and scalability (git, dvc, Docker, Amazon Web Services) is a plus.
• You have full professional proficiency in English.
• You’re a team player and at the same time can be independent and take responsibility for your tasks. Structured way of working and creativity complete your profile.

• We are fully remote! Work from anywhere in the world within a 3 hour SAST time zone.
• We have co-working spaces in Cape Town, Mauritius, Kenya & Nigeria.
• A cutting-edge development stack is waiting for your code contribution.
• You will be working with over 80+ highly skilled technical minds (and expanding).
• Backing of the international media powerhouse Ringier AG, which allows us to access world class development resources, shared knowledge and a wealth of international business insights.
• Our teams work with a wide range of tech stacks.
• We are committed to the future growth prospects of our employees by allowing autonomy, flexibility and an opportunity to master your respective skill.

Executive

Full-time

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting

As a Data Scientist you will have exposure to many aspects of the business, and make direct impact to the bottom line. You will be accountable for interfacing with various teams throughout the business to derive a deep understanding of underlying phenomena that impact portfolio performance, develop better features to improve the performance of our predictive models, and better understand the links between client interventions and behaviour. You will also innovate to improve processes, algorithms, methods, product constructs, designs, and analyse experiments to learn about our clients and explore opportunities for portfolio improvement such as growth, stability, and revenue.

You will

• Analyse, transform, augment and build datasets to convert financial and behavioural data into features and dimensions that allow us to more easily and accurately extract insights.
• Use your coding skills to contribute to our team tooling and automate processes as much as possible.
• Design and develop models of our real world systems and client behaviours to help inform our decision making. This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, simulating products or systems, testing decline strategies, and optimising client experience.
• Analyse end user requirements to understand and communicate what our stakeholders (for example, fellow analysts, portfolio managers, or partners) need, and what we can deliver to match those expectations.
• Derive and communicate insights to our stakeholders.

You will need

• A bachelor's degree with a strong quantitative component (e.g. Economics, Physics, Engineering, Software engineering, etc.).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience filling a similar role in Finance & Technology.
• Strong data wrangling skills using SQL and coding in python.
• An ability to interpret problems, and simplify them to their essentials.
• The desire to innovate, be creative and work on challenging problems.

Bonus if you have

• Experience working in fintech, specifically with lending products.
• Experience working with cloud computing.
• Personal projects you have worked on that you can showcase.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in communicating complex concepts simply and clearly.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

You will be based in South Africa. We operate on a remote first working approach where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you have access to a reliable connection and are set up to work remotely.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

As a Data Scientist you will have exposure to many aspects of the business, and make direct impact to the bottom line. You will be accountable for interfacing with various teams throughout the business to derive a deep understanding of underlying phenomena that impact portfolio performance, develop better features to improve the performance of our predictive models, and better understand the links between client interventions and behaviour. You will also innovate to improve processes, algorithms, methods, product constructs, designs, and analyse experiments to learn about our clients and explore opportunities for portfolio improvement such as growth, stability, and revenue.

You will

• Analyse, transform, augment and build datasets to convert financial and behavioural data into features and dimensions that allow us to more easily and accurately extract insights.
• Use your coding skills to contribute to our team tooling and automate processes as much as possible.
• Design and develop models of our real world systems and client behaviours to help inform our decision making. This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, simulating products or systems, testing decline strategies, and optimising client experience.
• Analyse end user requirements to understand and communicate what our stakeholders (for example, fellow analysts, portfolio managers, or partners) need, and what we can deliver to match those expectations.
• Derive and communicate insights to our stakeholders.

You will need

• A bachelor's degree with a strong quantitative component (e.g. Economics, Physics, Engineering, Software engineering, etc.).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience filling a similar role in Finance & Technology.
• Strong data wrangling skills using SQL and coding in python.
• An ability to interpret problems, and simplify them to their essentials.
• The desire to innovate, be creative and work on challenging problems.

Bonus if you have

• Experience working in fintech, specifically with lending products.
• Experience working with cloud computing.
• Personal projects you have worked on that you can showcase.
• Experience with software engineering.
• Experience in communicating complex concepts simply and clearly.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• A stack of leading-edge technologies

Remote First

You will be based in South Africa. We operate on a remote first working approach where working remotely is our default way of working. Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you have access to a reliable connection and are set up to work remotely.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

This is a remote position.

Ringier Data Technology Department is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team.

Our team leverages the latest models to predict financial figures or the best price for an advertisement, create user-facing chatbots and much more applications. We’re also working with cutting-edge technologies, like LLMs, trying to create applications that will drastically increase the visibility of Ringier’s brands.

• You work with various datasets from different Ringier companies in different business divisions across publishing and marketplaces and in different regions across continents.
• You choose, improve, and apply various methods from statistics, machine, and deep learning technologies in order to solve business problems.
• You model the data of our users, their interests and online behaviour as well as the data of the different Ringier’s business units in order to serve the business demands, and enable the future business models.
• You work closely with cross-functional teams to develop prototypes and products for cross-portfolio use cases.
• You communicate and visualise the value of data by describing the findings or the way how techniques work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You keep closely following research and engineering developments mostly in the NLP field, like HuggingFace, LLMs roll in the relevant technologies and methodologies to keep our modern technology landscape up to date.

• You have a degree (MS, Ph.D.) in computer science, statistics, mathematics or a comparable degree program or equivalent work experience.
• You have a strong record in applying Machine Learning to real-world datasets in a productive environment and are familiar with the main ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, XGBoost, LightGBM, …) and have strong experience in Python.
• You have worked with LLMs and frameworks like Langchain. You know the best practices and keep following the field so that you use the latest ones.
• You have deep knowledge of the latest advances in the NLP domain.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry is a plus.
• Experience in software development and confidence in developing the full ML model lifecycle from research to production ensuring aspects such as reproducibility and scalability (git, dvc, Docker, Amazon Web Services) is a plus.
• You have full professional proficiency in English.
• You’re a team player and at the same time can be independent and take responsibility for your tasks. Structured way of working and creativity complete your profile.

• We are fully remote! Work from anywhere in the world within a 3 hour SAST time zone.
• We have co-working spaces in Cape Town, Mauritius, Kenya & Nigeria.
• A cutting-edge development stack is waiting for your code contribution.
• You will be working with over 80+ highly skilled technical minds (and expanding).
• Backing of the international media powerhouse Ringier AG, which allows us to access world class development resources, shared knowledge and a wealth of international business insights.
• Our teams work with a wide range of tech stacks.
• We are committed to the future growth prospects of our employees by allowing autonomy, flexibility and an opportunity to master your respective skill.

Executive

Full-time

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting

This is a remote position.

Ringier Data Technology Department is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team.

Our team leverages the latest models to predict financial figures or the best price for an advertisement, create user-facing chatbots and much more applications. We’re also working with cutting-edge technologies, like LLMs, trying to create applications that will drastically increase the visibility of Ringier’s brands.

• You work with various datasets from different Ringier companies in different business divisions across publishing and marketplaces and in different regions across continents.
• You choose, improve, and apply various methods from statistics, machine, and deep learning technologies in order to solve business problems.
• You model the data of our users, their interests and online behaviour as well as the data of the different Ringier’s business units in order to serve the business demands, and enable the future business models.
• You work closely with cross-functional teams to develop prototypes and products for cross-portfolio use cases.
• You communicate and visualise the value of data by describing the findings or the way how techniques work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You keep closely following research and engineering developments mostly in the NLP field, like HuggingFace, LLMs roll in the relevant technologies and methodologies to keep our modern technology landscape up to date.

• You have a degree (MS, Ph.D.) in computer science, statistics, mathematics or a comparable degree program or equivalent work experience.
• You have a strong record in applying Machine Learning to real-world datasets in a productive environment and are familiar with the main ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, XGBoost, LightGBM, …) and have strong experience in Python.
• You have worked with LLMs and frameworks like Langchain. You know the best practices and keep following the field so that you use the latest ones.
• You have deep knowledge of the latest advances in the NLP domain.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry is a plus.
• Experience in software development and confidence in developing the full ML model lifecycle from research to production ensuring aspects such as reproducibility and scalability (git, dvc, Docker, Amazon Web Services) is a plus.
• You have full professional proficiency in English.
• You’re a team player and at the same time can be independent and take responsibility for your tasks. Structured way of working and creativity complete your profile.

• We are fully remote! Work from anywhere in the world within a 3 hour SAST time zone.
• We have co-working spaces in Cape Town, Mauritius, Kenya & Nigeria.
• A cutting-edge development stack is waiting for your code contribution.
• You will be working with over 80+ highly skilled technical minds (and expanding).
• Backing of the international media powerhouse Ringier AG, which allows us to access world class development resources, shared knowledge and a wealth of international business insights.
• Our teams work with a wide range of tech stacks.
• We are committed to the future growth prospects of our employees by allowing autonomy, flexibility and an opportunity to master your respective skill.

Executive

Full-time

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting