Role / Job Title: Data Solution Designer Data Science
Work Location: Norwich 3 Days (Flexible)
Duration of Assignment: 06 Months
The Role
The Data Solution Designer Data Science is responsible for designing end to end data science and advanced analytics solutions that translate complex business problems into scalable, secure, and high performance data products.
This role bridges business stakeholders, data engineering, data science, and IT architecture teams, ensuring solutions are production ready and aligned with enterprise standards.
Your Responsibilities
Solution & Data Model Design
1. Solution Design & Architecture
Design end to end data science solutions including data ingestion, feature engineering, model development, deployment, and monitoring
Define logical and physical architectures for analytics platforms, ML pipelines, and AI products
Ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, secure, and cost effective
Select appropriate ML/AI techniques (e.g., regression, classification, NLP, forecasting, clustering)
2. Data & Analytics Engineering Alignment
Work closely with data engineers to define:
Data models and schemas
Data quality rules
ETL / ELT pipelines
Define feature stores, training datasets, and inference pipelines
3. Model Development & Deployment Strategy
Guide data scientists on:
Model selection and evaluation strategies
Experiment tracking and reproducibility
Design MLOps frameworks for:
CI/CD of ML models
Model versioning and governance
Monitoring drift, accuracy, and bias
4. Technology & Platform Governance
Define standards for:
Programming languages and frameworks
Cloud vs on prem deployments
Security, privacy, and compliance
Ensure adherence to data governance, regulatory, and risk controls (especially in BFSI)
5. Documentation & Best Practices
Produce:
High level architecture diagrams
Low level design documents
Non functional requirement specifications
Establish best practices and reusable design patterns
Your Profile
Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience
Data Science & ML
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Time series, NLP, recommendation systems (as applicable)
Programming
Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit learn)
Optional: R, SQL
Data Platforms
Relational & NoSQL databases
Big data frameworks (Spark, Hive, Databricks)
MLOps & Deployment
Model lifecycle management
CI/CD pipelines
Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes desirable)
Model packaging and REST APIs
Cloud & Tools (Any combination)
AWS / Azure / GCP analytics and ML services
MLflow, Azure ML, SageMaker, Vertex AI
Version control (Git)
Domain & Soft Skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to explain complex data science concepts in simple business language
Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
Stakeholder management and decision facilitation
Preferred Qualifications
BFSI domain experience (risk, fraud, AML, credit, customer analytics)
Experience with regulatory data modelling and explainable AI (XAI)
Exposure to GenAI, LLMs, and vector databases
Desirable Skills / Knowledge / Experience
TOGAF or cloud architecture certifications
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