Data Science Consultant

Job Description

Job summary:We are seeking a Professional Services Consultant to join our consulting practice. This role blends technical depth with strategic consulting, enabling our clients to unlock value from their data by delivering scalable, production-ready ML and analytics solutions.

You will build and deliver machine learning and data-driven solutions that create measurable business impact for our enterprise clients. As a trusted advisor, you will play an active role not just in delivery, but also in scoping engagements, supporting proposals and SOWs, and contributing to go-to-market activities. Your technical skills in Python, machine learning, and data engineering will be matched by your ability to consult, influence, and communicate clearly with stakeholders.

This role is ideal for candidates who thrive at the intersection of technical delivery and client consulting in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.

Your team:

You will be part of the Professional Services team within our Engineering division, a group of hands-on consultants and technical experts who deliver scalable, production-ready data and machine learning solutions to our clients.

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Understand the client requirements and provide strong recommendations for delivering value in a structured way. 

• Lead the presentation to the client, clearly articulate the value of the deliverables and explain the suggested  approach. 

• Support the translation of customer proposals into clear, scoped Statements of Work under guidance, ensuring alignment with customer needs.

• Validates datasets, calculates KPI’s, supports data acquisition, and generates reports.

• Automates data collection from internal sources and analyzes patterns across data sets.

• Deep-dive data quality checks.

• Design reporting and validate the solution with client stakeholders

• Owns and is accountable for the quality and delivery of their work.

• Provides enterprise level analysis on the BlueOptima data set to inform workforce strategies and strategic planning for the development organization to drive cost savings, operational efficiencies, and productivity improvement.

• Deliver research articles and blogs to support strategic initiatives.

• Drive revenue growth by identifying and executing upsell opportunities within own active customer engagements.

Qualifications

Computer Science, Software Engineering and basic finance knowledge.

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima: 

• You bring 1-2 years of hands-on experience delivering data science, machine learning, or analytics solutions in a professional or enterprise setting.

• Skilled in stakeholder communication, especially in presenting findings and model results in a clear, tailored format to internal and external stakeholders, aligning with business objectives.

• Skilled in generating and delivering executive-ready presentations that translate technical insights into clear business value for C-suite stakeholders and decision-makers.

• Experienced in using BI tools such as Tableau or Microsoft Power BI.

• Proficient in Python with strong experience in libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, and xgboost, and writing clean, modular, and reusable code.

• Experienced in deploying Python scripts and ML workloads.

• Familiarity with SQL, including writing complex queries with Common Table Expressions (CTEs), and performance-aware joins across large-scale datasets.

• Comfortable operating in client-facing, consulting-style environments, where ambiguity is common and solutions must balance rigor with speed and impact.

Good to have:

• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including:

  • SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall)

  • CI/CD workflows for deploying analytics or ML solutions

  • Use of Version Control Systems (e.g., Git, GitHub) for collaborative development

Your career progression:In BlueOptima, we strive to strengthen your skills, widen your scope of work and develop your career fast. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to grow as a senior individual contributor by leading client engagements that deliver increasing strategic value.

Additional Information

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.

• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.

• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.

• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• 32 days of holidays (including 8 bank holidays) 

• Annual Leave Purchase 

• Hybrid working - 2 days remote and 3 days in the office each week

• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year

• Top of the line equipment (i.e. laptop, headset, desk gaming monitor)

• Office in Elephant and Castle with free drinks and snacks

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• 12 Weeks Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

• Pet friendly office

• Salary - Base -  £42K - £47K Annually

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