Data Scientist
2 months ago
Johannesburg, Saudi Arabia
JD Group
Full time
Minimum qualification and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering
- SAS Coding – Required; hands-on experience writing, testing, and optimizing SAS code in real-world projects.
- DS2 – Advantageous; actual experience working with DS2 in production environments.
- API Concepts – Required; experience using APIs to interact with systems, such as calling a decision engine via API and testing outputs.
- Credit Risk – Advantageous; experience working with credit risk assessments, decision models, or credit strategies in practice.
- Relational Databases PostgreSQL – Required; experience working with relational databases, including writing queries.
- SAS Visual Analytics – Advantageous; practical experience using SAS Visual Analytics to create reports, dashboards, or conduct analysis
- SAS Intelligent Decisioning – Advantageous; experience using SAS Intelligent Decisioning to manage and implement decisioning strategies.
- Post graduate qualification advantageous
Position outputs/competencies
- Assess the requirements of new credit rules and strategies, determining the most optimal way to implement them within the decision system.
- Develop new credit rules and strategies for easy future maintenance and optimal response time from the decision engine.
- Use API software to call the decision engine and test if the developed rules and strategies align with the received requirements.
- Analyse the output data from the decision engine to confirm the correct implementation of rules and strategies in production.
- Perform analysis on system logs, API logs, and data from other credit lifecycle systems to ensure they are functioning as intended and providing correct outputs.
- Build simple reports based on system analysis for early warning triggers and monitoring purposes.
- Analyse credit data to answer business-related questions.
- Understand the overall credit system flow and how it connects with the credit strategy and business rules.