Stanbic IBTC Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa’s financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.

Standard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading-edge financial solutions. Our growing global success reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture. To help us drive our success into the future, we are looking for resourceful individuals to join our dedicated team at our offices.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Scientist

Job ID: 80412006_80333171
Location: Idejo Street, Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Business Segment: Insurance & Asset Management

Job Description

• To assist the CIB sales team with the origination of credit proposals within acceptable turnaround times.
• The overriding objective is to grow the Bank’s lending book and maintain a high quality of lending assets through timely preparation of good quality credit applications (Application for Facilities – AFFs)

Qualifications

• First Degree

Experience:

• Proven development experience in software and software engineering.
• Understanding of financial services data processes, systems, and products. Experience in technical business intelligence.
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and data principles.
• Experience in building models (credit scoring, propensity models, churn, etc.).
• Experience in working with unstructured data (e.g. Streams, images)
• Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc.
• Experience with data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Providing Insights
• Examining Information
• Articulating Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interpreting Data

Technical Competencies:

• Diagramming and Modelling
• Data Integrity
• Research and Information Gathering
• Data Analysis
• Database Administration

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.