Data Scientist

My client is a prestigious government organisation, responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.

The purpose of this position is to manipulate, engineer, model and analyse data and/or data processes to underpin Data Architecture and support internal and external users.

This position is an initial6-month contract (full time, 37 hours per week, flexi-time), which has the possibility of transitioning into a permanent position.

The position is a hybrid role (1-2 days per week in office), and the successful candidate can be based from one of four office locations -Newport, Titchfield (Hampshire), Darlington, or Edinburgh.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with policy and operations teams to understand where data science can add value.
• Support strategic and operational decision making.
• Source, access, manipulate and engineer data processes with data that typically have characteristics of volume, velocity and variety, or both
• Build credible statistical models from the data and use best coding practices to generate reproducible work.
• May draw on other technical and analytical standards from across government and industry.
• Adhere to the data science ethics framework.
• Be open minded and demonstrate strong intellectual curiosity.
• Have...