Associate Data Scientist
Data Science
Remote
About Us
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Enjoy building models that answer real business questions, and explaining the results so anyone can follow? Read on.
About Reliance Health
We're a healthcare technology company of 400+ people using technology to make healthcare affordable, accessible, and delightful in emerging markets. We operate across Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire, with 300,000 people depending on us for their healthcare. We're one of Time Magazine's World's Top Healthtech Companies (2025).
We're a data-driven team that values ambitious thinking, simple communication, and working without micromanagement. We move fast, learn by doing, and our diverse team spans multiple nationalities and backgrounds.
The Role
As our Associate Data Scientist, you'll turn complex data into insights that help solve real business problems. You'll clean and prepare data, write SQL, and build statistical and machine learning models. You'll work with engineering, product, and operations teams, and explain your findings in a way both technical and non-technical people can act on. If you're curious, analytical, and like telling a clear story with data, you'll fit right in.
What You'll Do
- Collect, clean, and prepare structured and unstructured data for analysis
- Write efficient SQL queries to pull and shape data
- Build, test, and deploy statistical and machine learning models
- Monitor how models perform and improve or retrain them when needed
- Turn your findings into clear insights for technical and non-technical teams
- Work with engineering, product, and operations to define data needs and deliver solutions
- Document your methods, workflows, and data dictionaries so others can repeat your work
- Keep up with new practices in data science, AI, and machine learning
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 1-3 years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, or data science
- Intermediate SQL skills, including querying and joining large datasets
- Strong Python or R skills for analysis and modeling, with a solid grasp of statistics and hypothesis testing
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks like scikit-learn and version control tools like Git
- Completed NYSC or have a certificate of exemption
- Based in Lagos, Nigeria
Nice to Have
- Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or insurance
- Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
What We Offer
- Salary: ₦589,388.79 monthly
- Remote role based in Lagos, Nigeria
- Unlimited leave – take the time you need
- Premium health insurance for you and your family
- Learning and development allowance to support your growth
Ready to Join Us?
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today.
