Junior Data Scientist

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Description

In this role you will be involved in creating opportunities that delight our customers by leveraging Discovery’s vast clinical, demographic, and operational data. The successful applicant will be working within a highly specialized and growing team investigating ways to optimize and improve client services for Discovery’s client schemes. The successful candidate must be motivated, productive and work well within a team.

Responsibilities

• Connecting with a multitude of stakeholders to understand the data in a healthcare and operational context
• Mining large datasets to find new insights to inform operational efficiency and ‘member- delight’ interaction strategies
• You will be expected to deliver clear and reliable results on tight and high-pressured deadlines at times
• Use data to provide insights with predictive modelling, visualisations, advanced SQL scripts
• Present data and model findings in a way that provides actionable insights to business users

Qualifications

• Honours or Master’s degree in either Statistics, or Applied Mathematics
• Honours or Master’s degree in Computer Science with experience in statistical modelling, data mining and machine learning
• Other analytical qualifications will also be considered if accompanied by the relevant experience
• Analytical work experience in the financial or health services industry (advantageous)

Application instructions:

• Applly now!