# Data Science Lead (AI/ Software Development)

Overview Our client, a well-established insurance and financial services group based in George, is seeking an experienced Data Science Lead to build and drive its AI and machine learning capability. This is a hands-on leadership role in a young, ambitious data organisation where the successful candidate will remain personally close to the modelling work while mentoring a growing team. The role is permanent and based on site in George. Key Responsibilities • Lead the design, development and production deployment of machine learning models that deliver measurable commercial value. • Own the full model lifecycle end to end, from initial business requirement and discovery through to production monitoring and retraining. • Run business discovery sessions with stakeholders to scope opportunities, define success measures and prioritise the AI delivery roadmap. • Build and maintain supervised, unsupervised and time-series models across use cases such as customer lifetime value, propensity, churn and fraud detection. • Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams to ensure robust, well-governed data pipelines supporting model development. • Set and enforce technical standar

- **Id**: 3568224
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/job-mail-data-science-lead-ai-software-development>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: George, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-31T13:30:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-02T20:16:10Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-02T20:16:10Z
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4020
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 701519
- **Name**: Job Mail
- **Domain**: jobmail.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/job-mail>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Listed via**: jobmail.co.za
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Salary

- **Min**: 75000
- **Max**: 85000
- **Currency**: ZAR
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 61116

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Management years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T13:30:45Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-02T20:16:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 61116
- **Is top pay**: no

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