Data Scientist at Appzone Limited

AppZone is a response to the growing need in emerging markets for financial services accessibility to the masses. The company was formed with a genuine belief in Africa’s latent ability to support the home grown production and delivery of world class IT Software for the enhancement of key sectors of the budding economy. AppZone started off primarily as a developer of custom e-Banking and payment software for leading commercial Banks in Nigeria. In less than 3 years, AppZone had accumulated a remarkable asset-base of e-payment software products and intellectual property. In a bid to extend existing payment solutions to smaller scale Financial institutions, AppZone observed the absolute dearth of basic IT infrastructure and commenced a 2 year project to develop a world class yet affordable core Banking platform for Microfinance Banks (MFBs) and other small scale retail financial institutions. The culmination of this project saw AppZone in full ownership of an entire integrated suite of IT infrastructure required for the effective functioning of any modern retail Bank. Today AppZone has consolidated these platforms into a shared and entirely managed Banking and payment automation IT infrastructure under the brand BankOne. AppZone was incorporated in July 2006 as Price and Networks Limited and commenced full operations in June 2008 with a knife edged focus on creating a world class organization and defacto provider of IT software for the financial services industry. The young, dynamic and driven co-founders of AppZone decided to bring together their wealth of technical, administrative and entrepreneurial experience as well as key leadership competences to create a winning team comprising the best in brains and character. The end point being to transform the financial services industry in Africa and emerging markets around the globe thereby creating immense value for the respective economies and facilitating their overall growth and development.

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

• 4+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience.
• BSc 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.
• 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

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