Head of Data Science & Advanced Analytics

Talensa Partners
London
1 year ago
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Talensa Partners are a dedicated search firm for Technology, Data, Cyber and Transformation leadership talent that tackle the business problem, build on culture and enable the next phase of innovation and growth.


We are a relatively new brand in the market with a wide reaching network. As such we already have a number of engaged fintechs and financial services clients who are looking to accelerate their enterprise Data journey as they undertake digital transformation.


We are actively looking to connect and speak with proven Data Science and Advanced analytics leaders who have a number of the following skills and experience:


  • Experienced to orchestrate an enterprise Data and BI focussed data strategy
  • Preferably with a Data Engineering background
  • Proven at building data platforms and data science solutions for business stakeholders within financial services or highly regulated sector
  • Ability to model insights that activate data driven decision making
  • Recruit and develop data science and analytics teams
  • Oversee design and deploy of ML models and advanced analytics capabilities
  • Implement Data Governance, Quality, Privacy and Security
  • Interim and Permanent



This is an advert post to further build our active candidate network in the above designated areas. Not a specific role being presented at this time. As such we would only be back in contact with the most suitable applications to the roles we have in pipeline with our clients.



Thank you for taking an interest in Talensa Partners services.


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