Data Scientist at Appzone Limited

Appzone Limited is Africa's leading provider of Integrated Banking and Payment software platforms and incidentally creator of BankOne; the world's leading cloud infrastructure for Banking and Payment processing targeted at Small and Medium financial Institutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Description

• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to research, design and develop cutting-edge generative AI algorithms to address real-world challenges
• Work across customer engagement to understand what adoption patterns for generative AI are working and rapidly share them across teams and leadership
• Interact with customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide customers on adoption patterns and paths for generative AI
• Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholder
• Provide customer and market feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help define product direction.

Requirements

• B.Sc in Computer Science, or a related discipline. MSc in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Operations Research, Statistics, Mathematics or an equivalent quantitative field.
• 4+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience.
• Experience managing data pipelines and working with data engineers and business intelligence engineers collaboratively.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java.
• Experience in communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• Proven knowledge of deep learning and experience hosting and deploying ML solutions (e.g., for training, tuning, and inferences).
• Working knowledge of generative AI and hands on experience in deploying and hosting Large Foundational Models.
• Hands on experience building models with deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, or MXNet.

Benefits
Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes:

• Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
• Flexible work option (Remote)
• Group Life Insurance 
• Medical Insurance 
• Paid Lunch for onsite work
• Lifelong Learnings

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2024.