# DATA SCIENTIST

Introduction Function / Division Consumer CVM and Loyalty Reporting Line Senior Manager Duties & Responsibilities • Build and enhance personalised recommendation models for the personalised inbound product platform. • Develop models for customer propensity, product selection, ranking, pricing and affordability optimisation. • Evolve existing scoring approaches towards adaptive, data-driven ML and AI decisioning. • Develop customer-level features using usage, spend, recharge, purchase, engagement and response behaviour. • Develop optimisation approaches that balance customer relevance, affordability, conversion and commercial value. • Build, train, validate and optimise predictive and recommendation models using appropriate statistical and machine-learning techniques. • Develop learning-to-rank, experimentation, uplift and adaptive-learning approaches where appropriate. • Design robust control groups, champion/challenger tests and experimentation frameworks. • Establish appropriate measures of model performance, including predictive accuracy, lift, calibration and incremental commercial impact. • Build model explainability and interpretability into recommendation decisioning. • Mo

- **Id**: 4016822
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/magnus-consulting-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T10:25:48Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:25:48Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4530971
- **Name**: Magnus Consulting
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/magnus-consulting>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

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- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **LightGBM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
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- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no
- **XGBoost** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T12:57:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T15:33:01Z

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