Discovery Limited
Full job description
Business Unit: Discovery Health
Function: Data Sciences
Date: 5 Mar 2026
Discovery Health – Digital and DHCS
Behavioural Data Scientist Graduate (Johannesburg and Cape Town)
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
Key Purpose
We’re looking for analytically curious graduates eager to apply real data science to real-world impact within the Digital team, working across the Health App, HealthID, and Discovery Health Care Services businesses to leverage large-scale behavioral and transactional data and uncover meaningful patterns in member behavior. From journey analytics and segmentation to experimentation and predictive modelling, we use advanced analytics to inform strategy, data-driven decision-making and insights into customer, product and department behavior.
You’ll work with rich data sets, modern tools, and cross-functional teams to solve complex problems — translating data into measurable outcomes. If you’re excited by messy data, human behavior, and building models that influence decisions at scale, this is where you start.