Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

Location: South Manchester – Hybrid (after 3 months)

Salary: £65,000-£80,000 (Negotiable)

Type: Permanent

We are hiring a Lead Data Scientist to join a growing, customer facing data science practice within an established digital transformation consultancy.

You will deliver impactful tech for good programmes across Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Digital Democracy, working directly with customers to solve complex, high value problems.

The Role:

• Build effective working relationships with key customer & third party stakeholders, leading interactions within your domain
• Work with customers to scope technical requirements and solution design
• Own the end to end design and implementation of larger scale data science solutions, assuring development and maintenance of strong documentation, and ensuring that designs are translated into implementation
• Own the full lifecycle from design and build through to deployment and continuous improvement across larger data science services
• Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams alongside Engineers and UCD specialists
• Act as point of technical assurance for the work of junior practitioners, and support Senior practitioners to maximise quality and pace
• Support with recruitment and training activities to enable continued growth of the data science capability

You will be acting as one of the main faces of the business on larger scale Data Science services, responsible for technical design, customer stakeholder management, assurance & deployment.

What we are looking for:

• Strong commercial data science experience in Agile environments
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to quickly build credibility and rapport with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Good Python or R skills, writing production ready code
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience deploying models into live environments
• Experience working with sensitive data and understanding governance best practice
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical outputs to stakeholders
• Ability to accurately translate client requirements into technical solutions, and

Desirable:

• NLP experience
• Experience deploying Generative AI applications, such as chatbots or RAG systems
• Consultancy or professional services background would be advantageous

If you are a Lead Data Scientist who enjoys customer interaction and are looking to advance your career whilst helping deliver some of the UK’s most important tech for good projects, we’d love to hear from you.