Senior Data Scientist (Contractor)

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist Start Date: 2026-06-30 - 2026-07-30 Vacancy Type: Contractor REC000553 Sectors: Insurance, Banking, Financial Location: Gauteng , JHB - Central Salary: Brief: The Senior Data Scientist is a specialised role focused on applying advanced analytics, machine learning, and graph-based techniques to derive insights from complex, interconnected data. The role supports high-impact use cases such as fraud detection, financial crime, and customer intelligence. Responsibilities include developing predictive models, leveraging graph analytics, enabling AI/GenAI use cases through knowledge graphs, and driving feature engineering for downstream models. The role requires strong expertise in Python, machine learning, graph analytics, and cloud-native platforms, with accountability for end-to-end model development, performance optimisation, and deployment within enterprise data environments. Detail: The Senior Data Scientist is a specialised role focused on applying advanced analytics, machine learning, and graph-based techniques to derive insights from complex, interconnected data. The role supports high-impact use cases such as fraud detection, financial crime, and customer intelligence. Responsibilities include developing predictive models, leveraging graph analytics, enabling AI/GenAI use cases through knowledge graphs, and driving feature engineering for downstream models. The role requires strong expertise in Python, machine learning, graph analytics, and cloud-native platforms, with accountability for end-to-end model development, performance optimisation, and deployment within enterprise data environments. show more... For more information please contact: Laurel Daniels Apply