Job title: Data Scientist Location: Head Office, Pretoria Organisation: Business Support Division Department: National Payment System Department Brief description The main purpose of this position is to identify and model the National Payment System Department’s (NPSD) key business decisions and apply business rules and analytical technology to automate and improve the business decisions. Detailed description The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas: Develop requirements for predictive analytics by developing design specifications (decision models) in line with the data governance. The design specifications include the validation and success criteria, business goals and the business process model involved in making decisions. Prepare the required data by performing a data assessment, consolidation and data integrity testing. Identify actionable insights from the prepared data by providing statistics about data features, correlations between features, aggregation of data and the creation of new features. The results of this data exploration must be added to the requirements to focus on the most relevant data. Perform predictive modelling (design, create, test and implement hypotheses and analytical models) using prepared data. Monitor, measure and report on analytical results to ensure appropriate business recommendations and insights. The analytical results may require an update of the decision requirements model. Ensure that there are deliverables resulting from the model development, such as deployed reusable software assets and knowledge transfer that allows business to integrate this asset in their business processes. Lead applied analytics initiatives and produce analytical outputs in support of relevant business objectives. Research, benchmark, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms/models to analyse diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes and provide expertise on mathematical concepts for the NPSD. Create a performance culture within the division, define performance expectations and conduct effective performance management of direct reports. Evaluate own performance against given criteria and identify and address task-specific learning needs. Plan, organise, control, manage and evaluate the work of team members and administer human capital functions. Collate and provide management information for decision-making purposes. #J-18808-Ljbffr