# Lead Data Scientist

Reference: CPT000072-Emma-1 Permanent Remote Opportunity in Cape Town Global Client in the Technology Industry requires a Lead Data Scientist who can lead complex analytical work, represent Data Science function and be involved in designing, coding and delivering solutions. Duties & Responsibilities Duties & Responsibilities: Responsible for owning the analytical roadmap Maintain a customer analytics journey Translate ambiguous business operations into decision-ready analysis Apply warehouse and Lakehouse best practises Use Ai throught the delivery lifecycle Generate insight across multiple data parties Support Data Science Leadership Key Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Data or equivalent Minimum 8 Years experience in a similar role, with at least 2 years in a leadership role Good Understanding of Apache Ranger, FastAPI, PySpark, Kubernetes, Microsoft Tech like C# & .Net etc. Experience with Automated testing

- **Id**: 4011900
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ilaunch-lead-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T08:40:09Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T08:40:09Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 933
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing

## Company

- **Id**: 4496254
- **Name**: ilaunch
- **Domain**: ilaunch.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ilaunch-co-za>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T10:19:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T13:21:19Z

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