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Data Scientist | On-site | George, Western Cape

Western Cape, South Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2025-08-15 → 2026-08-11

Core

Shape business strategy, pricing, and customer outcomes by applying data science and actuarial thinking to turn data into decisions.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (actuarial intersection)

Builds

Production-ready ML models, dashboards, and reporting tools for business strategy and pricing

Domain

Insurance/Actuarial + Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Machine learning lifecycle ownership, data cleaning and feature engineering, exploratory data analysis, model validation and monitoring, drift detection, model retraining, stakeholder communication, documentation

Preferred skills

Actuarial modeling knowledge, business strategy alignment

Technologies

(none explicitly stated)

Responsibilities

Prepare and transform data for machine learning; conduct exploratory analysis to guide model design; build, test, and deploy ML models; collaborate with actuarial teams to align assumptions; validate models for performance and accuracy; monitor live models for drift; maintain and retrain models; create documentation for models and pipelines; develop dashboards to track KPIs; communicate insights to stakeholders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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