Lead Data Scientist

✅ Enjoy solving complex data problems and building simple, yet effective, solutions? ✅ Love helping clients get more out of their data and finding routes to deploy? ✅ Mentor, lead and inspire teams? ✅ Experience with data science, machine learning algorithms and data engineering? If you are ticking those points, and have experience collaborating with clients (providing advice or building prototypes), to help them use their data as efficiently and effectively as possible, this position could be a great next step. This opportunity would see you join a London-based data SME, that use innovative methods to solve the hardest data challenges to help Public Sector organisations make more informed and accurate decisions, at scale and faster. You will be working with clients to identify opportunities for data science to be used to solve problems. You will identify data sources that are relevant to client needs, and related data science concepts that leverage those sources to aid the client. You will work with various forms of data (e.g., unstructured, semi-structured or structured; text, time-series or image) and suitably model them for efficient data science use, before applying statistical and evidence-based techniques to inform insights and actions from the data. You will help take your clients on a data journey, telling the story of their data, whilst also developing scalable models and algorithms that can be deployed into production. Designing, evaluating, and implementing on-premise, cloud-based and hybrid data science and machine learning techniques and algorithms will be paramount to your success. Most importantly though you will LEAD mentoring other Data Scientists, looking after the well well-being, mental health and career progression of your team. Sounds like something you’d enjoy? Here’s a bit more about you: 5 years of Data Science experience You have led client delivery across a range of projects, including data science, data engineering, data security and proven experience in relevant technologies (e.g., Python applied to data science). Cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). You have experience with using CI/CD tooling to analyse, build, test and deploy your code. You have a good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns and experience with code and data versioning, dependency management, code quality and optimisation, error handling, logging, monitoring, validation and alerting. Location? Hybrid, with 2-3 days working from the Central London office or on client site as required. Salary Paying to £75,000 flex allowance bonus 25 days holiday 5 days training 5% pension Security Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting