Data Scientist at Interswitch Group

Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. We started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processing, and have progressively evolved into an integrated payment services company, building and managing payment infrastructure as well as delivering innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent. At Interswitch, we offer unique career opportunities for individuals capable of playing key roles and adding value in an innovative and fun environment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Lagos
Job type: Permanent
Department: Purepay - Transaction Switching & Payment Processing

Job Description

Discover opportunities for product development, business and process optimization from internal and external datasets using Data Science techniques.

Responsibilities

Provide data science functions across the group
Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
Processing, cleaning, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
Ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented as regards acquired data and working documents used for analysis and modelling
Create/use automated anomaly detection systems and constantly tracking of its performance
Building your knowledge and learning new skills by attending workshops, seminars and conferences or self-learning materials
Research and identify new initiative opportunities and process improvements
Contribute to in-house data science tools
Develop machine learning and AI models to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, KPI and other business outcomes
Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
Provide support as required to assist clients in applying the generated insights to their business