Data Science Manager job at National Social Security Fund
Vacancy Title: Data Science Manager
Type: FULL TIME
Industry: Public Administration and Government
Category: Management
Jobs at: National Social Security Fund
Deadline: Wednesday, August 07, 2024
Duty Station: Within Uganda, Kampala, East Africa
Summary:
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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Job Details:
Job Purpose:
Responsible for overseeing the execution of enterprise data science frameworks consistent with the organization’s goals. In addition, developing and implementing data science models to solve high-impact business use cases and creating data-driven solutions to improve efficiency.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute detailed prescriptive and predictive analysis, including advanced mathematical modelling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning modelling.
- Monitor business issues and their impact on customers.
- Lead the team to identify, build, and implement scalable data-driven models for high-impact business use cases.
- Communicate analytics model behavior/results to the business.
- Integrate AI/ML within business processes to create new experiences or reimagine old processes.
- Carry out technical risk analysis and reliability assessments.
- Apply a strong understanding of data science techniques and libraries to business problems.
- Build department-wide data science frameworks and capabilities through brokering access to data sources and providing upskilling opportunities.
- Foster cross-functional team collaboration to acquire holistic input/domain knowledge required to build high-impact data science models.
- Facilitate desired productivity and quality performance from team and stakeholders, based on defined KPIs set by management teams across the department.
- Provide oversight of data science teams involved in agile scrum teams.
- Provide leadership and coaching to enhance high performance within the team.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related numeracy-based field.
- Professional qualification in Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, IBM Data Science Professional Certificate, or a related field.
Work Experience:
- 7 years of working experience in data analysis or data management, with 3 years at a managerial level.
Key Competences:
- Commitment & Integrity
- Proactivity & Innovation
- Getting Work Done
- Relationship Building
- Communicating and Influencing
- Resilience & Resourcefulness
- Thinking and Problem Analysis
- Advanced Research and Investigation
- Advanced Business Process and Project Management
- Intermediate Risk and Control
- Advanced Data Collection and Analysis
- Advanced Problem-Solving Tools and Techniques
- Advanced Computer-Aided Auditing Techniques
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 84
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job Application Procedure:
Interested individuals should follow this link to fill out the application form and also send copies of their application letter, curriculum vitae, and academic qualifications, addressed to the Chief of People and Culture to recruitment@nssfug.org by Wednesday, 7th August 2024.
