Team Leader: Data and Analytics job opportunity at Capitec Bank.

Master's (M.Sc.)

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Stellenbosch....South Africa

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As a Lead Data #Scientist (Retail Credit), your purpose is to own and advance #Capitec’s highest materiality client exposure models, the intelligence that identifies salary deposits with near perfect precision and drives credit eligibility and downstream treatments in both batch and real time (branch side) pathways. You’ll combine deep research with production pragmatism to evolve our sequence-type deep learning neural #network models, ensuring they remain accurate, explainable, and robust under heavy load and tight SLAs. You’ll shape the analytics behind our enterprise “10 minute flow” (3 screen journey), turning complex data into simple, trusted decisions for clients and bankers alike. __ The role spans the full ML and Data Science lifecycles and the people leadership required to execute it well. You will lead a squad of Data Scientists, stewarding model design, feature governance, Model #Risk #Management grade documentation, approvals, deployment, and continuous monitoring. You’ll partner daily with RCED, delivery teams, and Branch Ops, to keep batch runs and real time scoring healthy, documented, and continually improved. With recent platform migrations, you’ll guide the team as deployments are detangled from platform engineering and stabilised as services the squad fully owns, freeing focus for pay date intelligence, collections strategies, and a client level view that compounds value over time.