Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Specialist

REQ 138363 - Keabetswe Modise
Closing Date: 13 March 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self Expert

Job Purpose

To manage a team and portfolio of data science projects with a focus on Machine Learning (ML) Engineering through multiple squads with a medium-term strategic horizon.

Job Responsibilities Define, grow and lead a team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers at any proficiency levels. Discover areas within Nedbank group that can be automated through machine learning Demonstrated technical knowledge of Machine Learning (Supervised and Unsupervised learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Re-Enforcement learning and similar Quantitative modelling techniques. Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful solutions comprising of analytics. Worked closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area. Innovated by adapting new Machine Learning modelling techniques and procedures Passionate about working disparate and large datasets to answer business questions. You should have deep expertise in creation and management of datasets. Exposure at implementing and operating stable, scalable  analytical solutions from production systems into end-user facing applications/reports. These solutions will be fault tolerant, self-healing and adaptive. Experienced in dealing with data from various sources and message streams and construct complex analyses. Implement data flow solutions that process data real time on message streams from source systems. Detail-oriented and must have an aptitude for solving unstructured problems. You should work in a self-directed environment, own tasks and drive them to completion Excellent business and communication skills and able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. Owned customer relationship about data and execute tasks that are manifestations of such ownership, like ensuring high data availability, low latency, documenting data details and transformations and handling user notifications and training Manage Financial and Business Results. Ensure that all individual and department results are delivered within budget to deadlines Ensure budget targets are met by effectively executing and complying to Divisional billing requirements and target Ensure that transparent transfer pricing for provision of products and services for the business area are being followed through Activity Justified Transfer Pricing (AJTP) model (aligned to GT service model) by establishing costs, prices and conditions Ensure effective targeted cost recovery through monitoring and ensuring all times are captured by staff on a weekly basis Ensure quality projects / processes / systems delivered on time and are fully aligned to Nedbank's business requirements Provide agreed information, resources, professional advice and strategic contribution to relevant stakeholders on time, in budget, within quality standards Ensured that all individual and department results were delivered within budget to deadlines Delivered services to client expectations and Nedbank standards Quality projects / processes / systems delivered on time and were fully aligned to Nedbank's business requirements Provided agreed information, resources, professional advice and strategic contribution (on time, in budget, within quality standard) Managed Stakeholder Relationships Deliver services on client expectations and Nedbank standards by ensuring the Service Level Agreement, Operational level agreements, contractual agreements and project schedules are met as stipulated Job Responsibilities Continue Advise and consult to clients by providing professional solutions that meet the requirements of the client’s business needs Ensure that professional solutions delivered within agreed parameters and timelines Ensure that Professional solutions demonstrate a balance of best of breed and return on investment for the client Enable the building of commercially viable relationships with clients by providing quality advice to clients Monitor and manage client, service providers/ vendors, partners and other stakeholder expectations Actively engage to establish trust and respect of department members, direct reports, stakeholders & manager/s through active engagement with all parties Delivered best practice services to client expectations Monitored and managed client, service providers, partners and other stakeholder expectations, built long term relations Proactively supported and shared information and knowledge with peers in own and other departments and function. Trusted and respected by department members, direct reports and manager/s. Effective communication and relationship networks upwards, downwards, sideways and outwards   Managed Internal Processes. Operationalise Divisional Strategy by ensuring all supervisors and first line managers understand and prioritise work in alignment to Divisional Strategy Empower First line managers and effective performance measures that are empowering and aligned to strategy by clearly defining their roles and responsibilities Ensure professional field is leveraged to enable strategy and that proposed solutions related to field are embedded in strategy Select appropriate professional frameworks, methods/ supporting technologies in line with Agreed Architecture and expected return on investments Manage multiple assets through the development, implementation, review of strategies and planning for area Essential Qualifications - NQF Level Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification Tertiary Qualification/ formal accreditation in STEM related field BSC Computer Science, BSc Engineering, Econometrics, Mathematical Statistics, Actuary Science.  Masters or Doctorate will be an added advantage. Post graduate management qualification MBA Preferred Certifications Cloud (Azure, AWS), DEVOPS or Data engineering certification. Any Data Science certification will be an added advantage, Coursera, Udemy, SAS Data Scientist certification, Microsoft Data Scientist. Minimum Experience Level 6 to 8 years line management 10 years IT Industry experience Technical / Professional Knowledge Deep understanding of Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization or related field. Experience in Python(Must), R and one additional language (SAS, Java Lua, Clojure, Scala, etc) Experience working with large data sets, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools (Spark, RAY, etc.) Experience in end to end Use case delivery Ability to translate data narrative to business narrative Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work in cross functional teams Budgeting Business administration and management Change management Client service management Communication Strategies Diversity management Employee training/development Financial Accounting Principles Governance, Risk and Controls Principles of project management Relevant regulatory knowledge Stakeholder management Strategic planning Talent management Workforce planning Business writing skills Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms System Development Life cycle (SDLC) ITIL IT Architecture General Communication Skills Joint application development Organisational structure Influencing IT Assets management processes Behavioural Competencies Building Partnerships Facilitating Change Inspiring others Business Acumen Building partnerships Driving for Results Selecting Talent

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