AWS Data Scientist

Remuneration:	basic salary
Location:	Johannesburg
Education level:	Diploma
Job level:	Mid/Senior
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#NG60076
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

A dynamic global group with a focus on innovation topics as well as comprehensive IT solutions and Global Team collaboration driving experiences with a deep insight into the compliance and IT Methodology processes is recruiting for a Data Scientist to develop and maintain AWS data engineering architecture for a machine learning project and prepare data for machine learning and data visualisation applications.

Responsibilities:

• Develop data science solutions and integrate and scale these solutions into MLOps pipelines
• Implements analytical algorithms for object detection, segmentation, classification, and recognition
• Provide support on Low code, no code solutions for business teams
• Evaluate LLM output and compare LLM configurations.
• Provides complete application lifecycle development, deployment, and operations support for Big Data solutions and infrastructure
• Managing the expectations of business product owners, and ensuring that healthy synergy exists between the business and feature team.
• The planning of epics and sprints, and ensuring that business needs are accurately translated into technical tasks for a feature team to execute.
• Is responsible for discovering insights and identifying business opportunities using algorithmic, statistical, and mining techniques
• Interprets the results of statistical and predictive experiments and regression analysis and integrates this into complex business processes
• Analyses the data and build reports by using data visualisation tools such as Qlik and AWS Quicksight

Qualifications and Experience:

• Data Science degree such as Statistics, Computer Science or Engineering.
• Strong background in software development, mathematics and good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 5-8 years of experience in the field of Data Science.
• Python, Terraform
• SQL
• Python, OpenAI, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, LLM Agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation
• AWS, EC2, S3, EMR, Azure
• Windows, Linux and Unix
• BI tools such as AWS Quicksight or Grafana
• VSCode, Pycharm, Jupiter Notebooks, Microsoft Visual Studio
• Git
• ATC Confluence, JIRA, GitHub, GitHub CoPilot, GitHub Actions

The Reference Number for this position is NG60076 which is a Contract position based in Johannesburg offering a salary of R480.00 up to R580.00 per hour, salary negotiable based on experience. E-mail Nokuthula on e-merge.co.za or call her for a chat on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 27 Jan 13:48, Closing date 28 Mar