Lead Data Scientist - AI

Discovery Limited|Posted 14 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Data scientist

Other roles:Engineering manager, Engineering lead, Machine learning engineer

Experience in role:8+ years

Language proficiency:English

Must-have skills:

Python

Stakeholder Management

Natural Language Processing

Nice-to-have skills:

Agile

Google Cloud

OpenAI API

Prompt Engineering

RAG

AI Agents

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid

Location of job:Johannesburg, South Africa or Gauteng, South Africa

Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder

Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa

Employment type:Permanent

Role description

Join Discovery Health Group Data Science Lab as a Lead Data Scientist - AI and spearhead our cutting-edge AI initiatives. You'll lead a team of 12 talented professionals, driving the delivery of innovative AI projects that align with our strategic goals. Your expertise will directly impact our product offerings, operations, and service quality.

In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams and executives, ensuring projects meet the highest standards. You'll oversee the design and implementation of sophisticated data science, NLP, and AI products, making key decisions. We offer the opportunity to work with large and significant data across diverse areas, including digital, clinical, wellness, and behavioral themes, using our modern big data architecture and AI platform.

We're looking for a creative, enthusiastic leader with a strong background in NLP and LLMs. You'll represent Discovery Health at industry events, contribute to AI governance, and influence group-wide strategies. Join us in our mission to make people healthier and enhance and protect their lives.

About Discovery Limited

1000+ employees

What we do

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Why Work For Us

Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.