Senior Data Scientist

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist Company: Lula Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: ROLE PURPOSE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Partner with stakeholders to translate business questions into analytical problems, and communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non\-technical audiences. * Own the productionisation of machine learning models, including reproducible pipelines, versioned code, automated testing and deployment, working with data engineers and analytics engineers. * Monitor models in production for performance, drift and data quality, and drive retraining, remediation and improvement when they degrade. * Build, validate and maintain predictive models (e.g. classification, regression, forecasting, segmentation). * Explore, clean and analyse large datasets to uncover trends, drivers and opportunities. * Design and analyse experiments (A/B tests, pilots) and measure the impact of business initiatives. * Build dashboards, reports and reusable analysis assets that make insights self\-serve. * Help raise the standard for how data science is done at Lula * Contribute to data quality, documentation and good practice across the data team. Work Location: Cape Town, WC, South Africa Availability: Full time

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR * A numerical or quantitative degree (e.g. mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, engineering, economics, finance) * 3\-5 years' experience in a data science or advanced analytics role * Proven experience productionising machine learning models and monitoring them once live (performance, drift, data quality) * Experience building and evaluating machine learning models on real\-world data * At least 3 years' experience actively using Python in data analysis or modelling (pandas, scikit\-learn or similar) * At least 3 years' experience actively using SQL for data analysis * Experience applying software engineering practices to data science work (Git, code review, automated testing) * Experience in FinTech, lending or small business environments, or a strong interest in the space Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python, Pandas Salary: Not disclosed