Specialist Data Scientist needed at Absa Group Limited

Job Summary

• Work with Customer, Channel, Product, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence and Data Science teams, leveraging data across Personal & Private Banking to support business strategic objectives, generating commercial value.
• To provide advice and support on data analysis delivery, methods and techniques; enabling the construction, maintenance and expansion of data analysis.
• Gets to understand the business, oversees and conducts the conversion of data into insights that will lead to informed business decisions. Works directly with stakeholders, at various levels, and across various functions and departments.

Job Description

• Performs data analysis, for actionable insights, leveraging a range of data sources and relevant tools, with a curiosity to always keep learning (Databricks, Python, SQL, Power BI, Excel, Miro, GitHub, Confluence, Jira).
• Collaborates closely within a wider ecosystem team of Data Science, Data Engineering & Business Intelligence, growing knowledge of how each one of these function and how to put end-to-end data solutions together.
• Engages with Customer, Channel, Product and other business areas as a data ambassador, promoting what data can offer.
• Listens and asks questions to actively understand and unpack business opportunities and challenges, driving how data can play a key role in adding business value.
• Presents refined data solutions in a way that speaks to the specific audience, and takes them on a journey towards practical actions and solutions.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

End Date: December 4, 2025