Lead Data Scientist - Life Science - Up to £105,000 + bonus

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Are you interested in utilising your Data Science experience to enhance life science outcomes?


You will have the opportunity to lead and deliver various projects from start to finish at several types of health companies such as, biotech, medical devices, pharmaceuticals organisations etc.


Here, although some your work will include engineering / deploying models into production, the majority of your responsibilities will lean more towards research. However, you will have autonomy therefore you can engineer more often if preferred.


You will be meeting clients who want to realise the power of AI and you will be leading the development of AI solutions which will streamline and improve their day-to-day operations.


Although you will be a Lead Data Scientist, you won’t necessarily have any direct reports. You will be expected to set best practices, manage internal and external stakeholders, perform code reviews with junior members in the team.


The preferred candidate will be proficient with Python, have experience leading and delivering projects within a consultancy or life sciences company, and will have good research experience.


Please note, you will be expected to work in the office 4 days per week, and this role is based in Hammersmith, London. You can work from abroad up to 4 weeks per year. This is a 50-hour work week and they’re typical core hours are between 10am-4pm.


No up-to-date CV required, we can work on updating it if needs be.

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