Data Engineer and Data Scientist

Gravitas Recruitment
London, England
12 months ago
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Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: 60,000 - 75,000 + Equity

Gravitas is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing, AI-led fintech start-up thats transforming how financial institutions leverage intelligent systems. Theyre looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer / Data Scientist to join their London-based team and become a key contributor to the companys growth and product evolution .

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with 3+ years experience in a customer-facing data science role, who thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys solving complex, real-world problems.

What Youll Be Doing
Working directly with SMEs in banking and wealth management to extract business logic, often undocumented and distributed across teams.
Building semantic ingestion systems that prepare data for AI training and deployment.
Engineering high-efficacy, low-latency outputs, whether in code, documents, or structured checklists.
Collaborating with AI Engineers to structure agent-based models that generate JSON outputs and populate end-user documents.
Contributing to productisation efforts and developing technical best practices for scalable delivery.
Managing stakeholders and technical implementation with clarity and confidence.

What Youll Bring
Minimum 3 years experience in a customer-facing data science or engineering role.
Strong programming skills and ability to collaborate effectively with AI Engineers.
Experience in extracting business logic from domain experts.
A proactive mindset with a focus on productisation, documentation, and scalable solutions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Whats on Offer
Competitive salary: 60,000 - 75,000
Equity in a high-growth start-up
Hybrid working model with flexibility
A chance to be a core part of a company building the future of AI in financial services
Work on innovative systems with real-world impact

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