# Senior Data Scientist | Cape Town

Reference: ITA006466-Mel-1 We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Scientist to join a dynamic team based in Cape Town. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in advanced analytics, machine learning, cloud-based data platforms, and business intelligence, with a proven track record of delivering data-driven solutions that create measurable business value. Duties & Responsibilities ey Requirements 8+ years' experience in Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, or a related field. Strong hands-on experience with: AWS (S3, Redshift, SageMaker, Lambda, Glue, or related services) Snowflake Python SQL Power BI Machine Learning model development and deployment Experience building and deploying predictive, classification, clustering, and forecasting models. Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, data pipelines, and large-scale data processing. Proven experience working with structured and unstructured datasets. Experience translating complex business problems into practical analytical solutions. Strong stakeholder engagement and business partnering skills. Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models to solve

- **Id**: 3781946
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/network-it-senior-data-scientist-cape-town>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T08:01:04Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-30T08:01:04Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2227
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4497060
- **Name**: Network IT
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/network-it-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T01:00:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.537
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:9, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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