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.