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Senior Data Scientist

South Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-22 → 2026-09-03

Core

Lead end-to-end design, validation, and deployment of production-grade ML and LLM solutions for a global consumer beverages company, embedding AI into decision-making and commercial operations.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (LLM & MLOps)

Builds

Production ML/LLM applications, retrieval-augmented architectures, and agentic workflows

Domain

Consumer beverages, cloud-native analytics, responsible AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end ML/LLM solution design, model validation and testing, MLOps, responsible AI governance, cloud platform optimization, technical leadership, team mentorship

Preferred skills

Azure, Databricks, statistical rigour

Technologies

Azure, Databricks

Responsibilities

Lead design and deployment of production ML/LLM solutions; Define standards for model validation, monitoring, and governance; Build and operationalize LLM application stacks; Partner with data engineering for scalable cloud workloads; Act as technical sparring partner for the data science team; Mentor team members in MLOps and production engineering

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