Overview
Data Scientist –-Investment-&-Short Term Insurance R550K To R750K Per Annum Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at E-Merge
Join a financial services company as a Data Scientist transforming vast financial and short-term insurance datasets into actionable insights for portfolio managers, analysts, and risk teams.
You’ll build predictive models, automate due-diligence workflows, and surface performance drivers spanning traditional market data and insurer-specific metrics such as claims frequency, loss ratios, and solvency capital requirements.
Responsibilities:
Design ML / quant models for manager selection, risk attribution, alpha forecasting, and factor analysis incorporating short-term insurance KPIs (e.g., combined ratio, reserve adequacy).
Build scalable pipelines (Python, SQL, Spark / Dask) that ingest, cleanse, and enrich multi-manager and insurance data.
Codify due-diligence, performance-benchmarking, and insurer-health monitoring into reproducible frameworks.
Deliver real-time dashboards and APIs highlighting manager alpha and insurance-portfolio risk exposure.
Partner with PMs, analysts, risk, and actuarial teams to translate business problems into data-driven solutions.
Mentor junior analysts; promote best practices in ML-Ops and model governance.
Stay current on AI / ML trends across investments and Insur Tech; pilot relevant techniques (e.g., telematics-driven claims prediction, catastrophe risk modeling).
Contribute to our cloud-first stack (Azure / AWS, Databricks, Snowflake).
Qualifications and
Experience:
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Data Science, Stats, Comp Sci, Math, or Financial Engineering.
5-7 years hands-on data science experience (finance preferred).
Strong Python & SQL; expertise in ML libraries (Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Tensor Flow / PyTorch).
Proven track record deploying models to production (CI / CD, monitoring, retraining).
Cloud & big data know-how (Azure / AWS, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake).
The reference number for this position is NG. It is a permanent hybrid role offering a salary up to Rk per annum, negotiable based on experience.
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Title: Data Scientist –-Investment-&-Short Term Insurance R550K To R750K Per Annum
Company: E-Merge
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Category: IT/Tech (Machine Learning/ ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Science Manager, Data Analyst)
