Lead Data Scientist

Morgan Law
London
10 months ago
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A Charity in London are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to manage a team of Data Scientists and develop their Data Science Function.

In this role you will lead on the data science function and identify, develop, and deploy a range of data science models, working closely with senior stakeholders across the business to ensure solutions address business needs. The role requires both hands-on data science work as well as experience leading and managing the work of the team.

Responsibilities

  • Work with senior stakeholders across all of the directorates to demonstrate the art of the possible and jointly identify impactful data science opportunities.
  • Work closely with the Associate Head of Data Engineering to ensure the new data analytics platform and other tools are fit-for-purpose.
  • Develop and deploy data science models. They currently have two main priority areas:
    • They are developing and deploying a suite of propensity models to identify better cross-sell opportunities of their products. This will involve building the supervised machine learning models, identifying how we iteratively improve the data that the models require, and ensure that impacts are measurable, and that the system is deployed to iteratively improve over time.
    • They are developing techniques using NLP and LLMs on their data to improve operational efficiency and derive better insights as to what their supporters are concerned about.

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