Specialist: Big Data and Special Project Vodacom Tanzania Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Job Type: Full-Time
Closing Date: 30th October 2023
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Role purpose: 

  • Co-creating Advanced Machine Learning products that drive revenue, reduce cost and improve CX.
  • Developing big data monetization propositions and manage their end-to-end (E2E) execution.
  • Delivering actionable insights to support and contribute toward the delivery of CVM objectives and targets.
  • Contributing to the wider community to enable an Advanced Machine Learning capability across Vodafone globally

Key accountabilities: 

  • Identify Analyze and Interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets. 
  • Support the extraction of data (ETL) from multiple sources.
  • E2E go to market execution for big data and special projects propositions. 
  • Prepare analytics and ML model results to business users.
  • Development of machine learning models for various areas of the business on the Big Data Platform.

 

Core Competencies, Knowledge & Professional Qualifications

Core competencies and knowledge: 

  • Excellent analytical, logical and casual reasoning skills.
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to anticipate customer, competitor and market dynamics 
  • Able to challenge the status quo

Technical/professional qualifications and experience: 

  • 2+ years of experience in similar big data and data science role.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Journalism, or related fields
  • Significant knowledge of customer driven marketing techniques and processes
  • Proficiency in Python and associated data Science ecosystem, Machine Learning and Experiments Design.
  • Expertise in data manipulation: use of structured data tools (e.g., SQL), & unstructured data tools and platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL) 
  • Project knowledge and experience would be advantageous.

Skills

  • Modern Marketing Leadership
  • Data Analytics and Insights
  • CVM Campaign Development and Management
  • Always on Marketing