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Data Science Jobs in South Africa

There are 110 open Data Science jobs in South Africa on freehire right now. 39 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are machine-learning, data-science and python.

Most requested skills

machine-learning 73%
data-science 71%
python 71%
analytics 59%
sql 59%
statistics 57%
ai 45%
cloud 39%

How the work is done

Remote 18 · 16%
Hybrid 11 · 10%
Onsite 2 · 2%

Visa sponsorship offered in 0% of the 4 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

Senior 35
Lead 6
Junior 5
Intern 4
Middle 3
Principal 1

Who is hiring

1000+ employees 7
501-1000 employees 3

110 jobs

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110 jobs Posted Sort

Digital Outsource Services (Pty) Ltd

Data Scientist

New On-siteAfricaMiddle

Data Scientist / Actuarial Analyst at Super Group's Cape Town office who builds and maintains the financial 'SuperModel': forecasting, scenario and statistical modelling of the online gaming business's performance, plus Power BI dashboards. Core stack is Excel, SQL and Python (R optional), with an actuarial science background.

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Science Data Visualization Power BI +7 skills

Data Science Lecturer: Analytics & Big Data

Lecturer at Rosebank College (ADvTECH) in Gauteng, South Africa, teaching agreed hours across information systems, data science, and analytics. Day to day: delivering quality lectures, updating assessments, tracking student progress with the Central Academic Team, and supporting at-risk students.

Analytics Data Science

Data Scientist - Validation & Fairness for Scoring Engine

Deviare is hiring a Data Scientist or Psychometrician to act as a gatekeeper for its skills-science platform: validating proprietary assessment algorithms, statistically testing question banks for reliability, stress-testing scoring models, and verifying data flows to ensure accuracy and fairness before production. Core skills: statistics, NLP validation, and QA rigor.

Ovations Technologies

Senior Data Scientist (ML Engineering) OVA5886

New RemoteAfricaContractSenior

12-month contract role (via Ovations for a banking-sector client) focused on productionising machine learning, GenAI and AI-agent solutions: building ML pipelines and APIs on Databricks and Azure Kubernetes Service, using Python, Docker, CI/CD and MLOps practices to deploy, monitor and scale models in production.

Agentic AI AI AKS API Automation +28 skills

Data Scientist - (Global)

Open 128d RemoteWorldwideFull-time

Build AI-driven geospatial models to predict ore-grade mineralization and guide mineral exploration, integrating geoscience data and uncertainty quantification.

AI CI/CD Cloud Computer Vision Data Science +7 skills

140K – 260K $

Senior Data Scientist

ROLE PURPOSE As a Senior Data Scientist at Lula, you will turn data into decisions across the business. You will work with teams in product, operations, finance, marketing and credit to frame problems, build analyses…

Airbyte Airflow Analytics AWS Azure +23 skills

Psybergate (Pty) LTD

Senior Data Scientist (ML Engineer)

Senior ML/AI engineer at Psybergate who designs, deploys, and monitors production machine-learning, generative-AI, RAG, and AI-agent solutions on Databricks and Azure Kubernetes Service. Core stack is Python, SQL, MLflow, Spark, Docker/Kubernetes, with strong MLOps and CI/CD practices; most positions are remote but near the client site.

Agentic AI AI AKS API Automation +27 skills

Senior Data Scientist (ML Engineer)

Senior ML engineer who productionises, deploys and monitors machine learning, GenAI, RAG and AI agent solutions at scale. Day to day involves building ML pipelines and microservices on Databricks and Azure Kubernetes Service, with CI/CD, MLOps and Docker/Kubernetes at the core.

Agentic AI AI AKS API Automation +28 skills

Senior Data Scientist (ML Engineering)

Senior Data Scientist designing, building, and optimizing ML, AI, and decisioning models for Personal & Private Banking and Digital channels on the Databricks platform — spanning feature engineering, model development, experimentation, risk/fraud modeling, and Generative AI use cases. Core stack: Python, SQL, Databricks, MLflow.

AI Analytics AWS Azure Cloud +16 skills

Sand Tech Holdings Limited

Principal Data Scientist

Open 92d AfricaPrincipal

Principal Data Scientist designs AI/ML solutions for telecom challenges, leads a team, and sets strategic roadmaps using Python and cloud platforms like AWS.

AI AWS Cloud Data Engineering Data Quality +6 skills

Senior Data Scientist, Product Data

Open 128d AfricaSenior

Senior Data Scientist builds and deploys ML models and pipelines to clean, classify, and deduplicate product catalogs and sales data for a global partnership marketing platform, using Python, SQL, and vector search tools.

A/B Testing AI Analytics Anomaly Detection BigQuery +49 skills

Data Scientist | DISA-DIA-SD-JHB-0083

Decision Inc. is hiring a Senior Data Scientist in Johannesburg to join its client-facing Data, Information & Analytics consulting team, building predictive, prescriptive and Gen AI models and integrating them into BI/cloud solutions across industries. Core skills: Python, statistics, and a cloud AI platform (Microsoft, AWS or GCP).

AI Alteryx Analytics AWS CI/CD +9 skills

Acuity Consultants

Senior Data Scientist & ML Engineer - Production Ready

Senior Data Scientist at Acuity Consultants in Cape Town (hybrid) who takes ML models into production and demonstrates their commercial value. Day to day you deploy, monitor and refine ML models with data engineers, influencing credit, product and operations decisions.

Data Engineering Machine Learning

1.2M – 1.5M ZAR

Data Scientist (SQL, Python, Big Query) - Johannesburg - up to R1mil per annum

HybridAfricaFull-time

A senior Data Scientist in Johannesburg (hybrid) who leads end-to-end machine learning and optimisation projects — especially territory and route planning — for enterprise clients. Core stack: Python, advanced SQL/BigQuery, OR-Tools/PuLP, MLOps tooling, and cloud platforms (GCP preferred).

AI Analytics AWS Azure BigQuery +21 skills

Data scientist - machine learning specialist

A data scientist role in Rustenburg focused on developing, training, and deploying machine learning models for predictive analytics, classification, and clustering, including data preparation, A/B testing, and productionizing models with engineering teams. Core technologies: Python/R, TensorFlow/PyTorch/scikit-learn, SQL, and big data tools like Spark and Hadoop.

Analytics Big Data Data Mining Data Science Hadoop +7 skills

Sasso Consulting (Pty) Ltd

JOB 30 – Data Scientist

Sasso Consulting is recruiting five Data Scientists for a client in Gauteng to design, build and deploy statistical and machine-learning models in enterprise IT environments. The day-to-day work spans Python and SQL analysis, predictive modelling, feature engineering, MLOps and cloud ML platforms, with a strong emphasis on translating insights for business stakeholders.

A/B Testing AI Analytics Anomaly Detection API +70 skills

Intermediate Data Scientist — ML & Big Data in Production

An Intermediate Data Scientist in Johannesburg who builds and deploys machine learning models on structured and unstructured data, collaborating with stakeholders to turn data into strategic insights. Core stack: Python, R, SAS, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and MLOps in production.

Hadoop Kafka Machine Learning Python SAS +1 skills

Data Scientist: ML, Insights & Impact in Big Data

Placements24 is hiring a Data Scientist in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga to analyze large datasets, build predictive ML models, and turn data into insights that drive decisions across the organization. The role involves developing ML solutions, collaborating with engineering and product teams, and communicating findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Machine Learning

Discovery Limited

Healthcare Data Scientist — ML & Big Data Insights

Discovery Health, part of Discovery Limited, is hiring an intermediate data scientist in Sandton to analyse clinical, demographic and operational data, apply modern ML techniques to large datasets, contribute to production environments, and present actionable insights that improve client schemes and customer experience.

Machine Learning

Senior Data Scientist: Big Data , AI

Senior Data Scientist at Vodacom's South Africa Big Data team in Midrand, owning ML and AI use cases end-to-end — churn, propensity, uplift and recommender models plus GenAI/agentic solutions — using Python, SQL, PySpark, deep learning frameworks and MLOps tooling to deliver measurable commercial value.

Agentic AI AI Analytics Athena Automation +40 skills