# Data Scientist

Introduction We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join its Consumer CVM and Loyalty team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and enhancing advanced machine learning models, personalised recommendation engines and predictive analytics solutions to drive customer engagement, product adoption and commercial value. The role involves working with large-scale datasets, developing customer propensity and product recommendation models, and implementing adaptive, data-driven AI and machine learning solutions. Strong hands-on experience in Python, SQL, Spark/Databricks and MLOps is essential, together with the ability to deploy and monitor machine learning models in production environments. The successful candidate will also provide technical leadership, mentor junior data scientists and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. Duties & Responsibilities Build and enhance personalised recommendation models for customer-facing product platforms. Develop customer propensity, product selection, ranking, pricing and affordability optimisation models. Evolve existing scoring approaches towards adaptive, data-driven

- **Id**: 4006516
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/samaha-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**: 2026-11-10T06:00:58Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:00:58Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4725
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation

## Company

- **Id**: 4496133
- **Name**: Samaha Consulting
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/samaha-consulting>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **AIOps** — Optional: no
- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CatBoost** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **LightGBM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **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: 2026-11-10T07:15:36Z

## 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**: 2026-11-10T08:37:49Z

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