Fresher Data Scientist Job Opportunities – Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited
Posted by: ugashare-Volunteer
Posted date: 2024-Jul-11
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Job Title: Data Scientist (Fresher Jobs) Organisation: Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda About Organisation: Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB). Key Duties and Responsibilities: - To assist in applying data mining techniques and conduct statistical analysis to large, structured, and unstructured data sets to understand and analyse phenomena. Model business problems, discovering insights and opportunities through statistical, algorithmic, machine learning and visualization techniques, working closely with clients, data, and technology teams to turn data into critical information used to make sound business decisions.
- Assist with gathering of data for use in Data Science models, ensuring that chosen data sets best reflect the organizations goals.
- Perform data pre-processing including data manipulation, transformation, normalisation, standardisation, visualisation, and derivation of new variables/features.
- Utilise advanced data analytics and mining techniques to analyse data, assessing data validity and usability; reviews data results to ensure accuracy; and communicate results and insights to stakeholders.
- Assist various mathematical, statistical, and simulation techniques to typically large and unstructured data sets to answer critical business questions and create predictive solutions which drive improvement in business outcomes.
- Code, test, and maintain scientific models and algorithms and identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data and determines additional data needed to support insight. Processes, cleanses, and verifies the integrity of data used for analysis.
- Liaise and collaborate with the Data Science Guild providing support to stakeholders in the department for its data centric needs. Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information and translates the business requirements into data mining/science outcomes. Present findings and observations to team for development of recommendations.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: - Bachelors Degree in Information Studies / Information Technology/Computer Science/ Data science or related from a reputable Institution.
- Proficiency in applications and web development. structured and unstructured query languages e.g., SQL, Qlik sense; Tableau, Python, C#, Java, C++, HTML, SaS
- Understanding of financial services data processes, systems, and products with experience in technical business intelligence. Knowledge of IT infrastructure and data principles.
- Experience in working with unstructured data (e.g., Streams, images), understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data. Using data mining to discover new patterns from large datasets. Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data.
Behavioral Competencies: - Articulating Information
- Challenging Ideas
- Checking Details
- Developing Expertise
- Developing Strategies
- Embracing Change
- Establishing Rapport
- Generating Ideas
- Interacting with People
- Interpreting Data
- Making Decisions
- Producing Output
Technical Competencies: - Risk Reporting
- Quantitative and analytic
- Risk Response Strategy
- Project Management
- Building models (credit scoring, propensity models, churn, etc.).
- SAS, R, SPSS, etc.
- Power BI, Tableau, etc.
- Effective Communications
How to Apply: All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups, Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by visiting Link below. Click Here For more of the latest jobs, please visit https://www.ugashare.com or find us on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Ugashare Related Jobs Job Title: Driver (A’ Level Jobs) Organisation: Finance Trust Bank… Job Title: Branch Operations Manager Organisation: Pride Microfinance Limited Duty… Job Title: Legal Officer – Litigation Organisation: Pride Microfinance Limited Duty… Job Title: Branch Manager Organisation: Pride Microfinance Limited Duty Station: Kampala,… Job Title: Assistant Information Management Officer (No Experience UN Data… Job Title: Assistant Information Management Officer (No Experience UN Data…
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