Senior Data Specialist job at Workforce Africa
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Vacancy title:
Senior Data Specialist

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Consulting , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Workforce Africa

Deadline of this Job:
15 November 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• The incumbent will be responsible for:
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Developing robust analytical models to address complex business problems and driving innovation

Qualification
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science, math, software engineering, statistics, data science or a related technical field.

Knowledge
• 5 yrs experience with programming languages like SQL, Python, and R
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau)
• Strong mathematics skills (e.g., statistics, algebra)
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc. . . . . Thorough understanding of Data-Science concepts and strong ‘hands-on’ expertise in architecting AI/ML solutions for challenging use-cases and in building classical and Deep Learning models.
• Specialization in one of the Data-Science areas like NLP/NLU, Time-Series Modelling, Graph Mining or Computer Vision
• Exceptional technical writing skills
• Ability to communicate complex data in a simple, actionable way
• Ability to visualize data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study
• Familiarity with data management tools
• Ability to work independently and with team members from different backgrounds
• Excellent attention to detail


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to Workforce Africa on www.linkedin.com to apply


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Job Info
Job Category: Data, Monitoring, and Research jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 15 November 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 09-11-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 09-11-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 09-11-2066
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