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NTT America Solutions, Inc. Senior Manager - Data & Digital Analytics in Johannesburg, South Africa
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Your day at NTT DATA
The Senior Manager, Data Science is a senior people management role accountable for operationally managing other seasoned or senior Data Scientists / Data Analysts. In addition to managing a team, this role applies and inspires the adoption of data science and analytics within NTT. The primary responsibility of this role is to manage data-driven solutions that add business value using statistical models, machine learning algorithms, data mining, and visualization techniques are created and delivered.
What you'll be doing
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Manage a team of Data Scientists / Data Analysts to ensure achievement of team objectives/KPIs
Identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive business solutions
Provide guidance in the research, design, implementation and deployment of scalable data analytics vision and machine learning solutions to challenge complex business issues
Manage company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
Provide guidance in the enhancement of data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
Provide guidance to process, clean, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis, and building algorithms necessary to find meaningful answers
Perform analysis using programming languages or statistical packages such as Python and R etc.
Guides on the mining and analysis of data to drive optimization and improvement of business strategy
Provide guidance to develop scalable and highly available applications leveraging the latest tools and technologies
Creatively visualizes and effectively communicates results of data analysis, insights, and ideas in a variety of formats to key decision-makers within the business
Set operational objectives for successful launch by leading and mentoring diverse, geo-distributed teams through innovation, bootstrapping, pilot, production, scaling, and maintenance phases with multiple stakeholders to the highest levels of quality and performance
Manage the development of SQL Queries for reports and dashboards
Analyse relational and transactional databases to provide data analysis, and present results in a clear manner
Provide guidance on the creation of documentation around processes and procedures and manage code reviews
Applies industry standards best practices to development activities
Provide guidance to working on data set to ensure solutions are successfully executed, within agreed upon time frames
Continuously coach and mentor team to understand and apply data to solve business solutions
Continuously ensure team remains abreast of latest technology and tools in the area of data science
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:
Excellent knowledge of data modelling
Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Quantitative and qualitative analysis skills
Desire to acquire more knowledge to keep up to speed with the ever-evolving field of data science and analytics
Curiosity to sift through data to find answers and more insights
Excellent knowledge of the information technology industry within a matrixed organisation and the typical business problems such organisations face
Ability to translate technical findings clearly and fluently to non-technical team business stakeholders to enable informed decision-making
Ability to create a storyline around the data to make it easy to interpret and understand
Self-driven and able to work independently, yet acts as a team player
Able to apply data science principles through a business lens
Desire to create strategies and solutions that challenge and expand the thinking of everyone around you
Ability to think strategically about how to use data to drive competitive advantages
Excellent leadership skills
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree or related in a relevant field such Data Science, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science etc.
Relevant programming certification(s)
Agile certification preferable
Required Experience:
Extended demonstrable experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python) and database languages (e.g. SQL)
Extended demonstrable experience with data warehouse and data lake technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT, and reporting/analytic tools
Extended demonstrable experience in data modelling
Extended demonstrable experience idesigning tabular models in Analysis Services
Extended demonstrated experience with Azure Synapse Analytics, SQL pools, data lakes.
Extended demonstrated experience in advanced Power BI, including complex DAX expressions
Extended demonstrable experience of data migration skills with Azure Data Factory and Integration Services
Extended demonstrable experience in Elastic search, Scoring, and recommendation on very large volumes of data
Extended demonstrated experience with Agile Development Methodologies and Test-Driven Development
Solid line manager experience leading and managing a team of Data Scientists / Data Analysts
Workplace type :
Hybrid Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
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