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Lead Data Scientist

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Edinburgh
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Job Description
Lead Data Scientist – Fully Remote
Up to £90,000 + Package
AI Connect have been retained by an award-winning international Data & AI consultancy to help them hire a Lead Data Scientist.
Key Responsibilities:
Displaying technical excellence and delivering projects expertly for clients
Team leadership
Support client relations
Technical Skills & Project Delivery:
Ability to write production level code in Python
Experience Implementing ML systems
Experience

implementing/building

Gen AI solutions highly advantageous
Strong communication skills particularly for non-technical stakeholders
Awareness of how ML & AI models are deployed
ML projects often require supervised, unsupervised & reinforcement learning
Support AI Engineering team design & implement LLMs through identifying model flows, design prompts & fine-tuning models
AI projects across include chatbot configuring, generating content & next best action
Team Leadership:
Identify opportunities & supporting team member development
Support internal graduate scheme
Provide an OKR environment
Client relations
Grow opportunities with clients through internal relationship building
Support the business through responses to proposals, pitches & RFIs
Support pre-sales, company decks and attend industry events

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