2 No Experience Jobs – Graduate Trainee – Data Science – Dfcu Bank

Job Title: Graduate Trainee – Data Science (2 No Experience Jobs)

Organisation: Dfcu Bank

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

dfcu Bank is part of dfcu Group, a Ugandan financial services firm. The Group comprises dfcu Bank and dfcu Investment Management. dfcu Bank offers a wide range of products and services in personal banking, business banking, and corporate banking.

Job Summary: Reporting to the Head of Data & Insights, the role is responsible for using scientific, or statistical techniques to make predictions, solve complex business problems, and identify opportunities to grow / optimize the business based on insights derived from sifting through data points to create organized categories, and prepare recommendations for the business.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identifying relevant data sources for business needs.
• Collecting structured and unstructured data.
• Sourcing missing data.
• Organizing data into usable formats.
• Building predictive models.
• Processing, cleansing & verifying of data.
• Analyzing data for trends and patterns and to find answers to specific questions.
• Assess quality of data and cleanse data to support decisioning.
• Data discovery – Unlocking opportunities, generating information and insights from data sets to identify trends and patterns.
• Preparing reports for executive and project teams.
• Data storytelling – provide actionable insights from data using data visualizations.
• Collaboration with the Data Protection Officer: provide support for the execution of key deliverables for the Personal Data Protection Office including training staff on personal data protection practices.
• Data breach management: Identify any data breaches and develop strategies to mitigate against breach occurrence including loss or misuse of personal data.
• Develop automated tracking mechanisms to support reporting and identification of data breaches across the enterprise.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Statistics, Software Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Data Engineering, Software Development or Information Technology related field.
• Graduated within the last three (3) years.
• Certification in; Data Science, Big Data or Data Analytics, Data analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Protection or any Data related field would be an added advantage.
• The job holder should have a minimum of one (1) year of experience in Data Management, Data Science and Analytics.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, R, Power BI, or other Data Analytics tools is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated interest in data science, machine learning, analytics, or business intelligence.
• Commitment & Integrity.
• Proactivity & Innovation.
• Getting Work Done.
• Relationship Building.
• Communicating and Influencing.
• Resilience & Resourcefulness (good at managing large amounts of data).
• Critical thinking and problem Analysis.
• Innovative.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 19th August 2026

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: no experience