Senior Data Scientist

Informed Solutions
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We're seeking a passionate Data Scientist to own the end-to-end implementation and design of data science applications for various clients. You will join a growing practice and champion and actively contribute to the growth of the discipline, enabling the ongoing growth of the data science capability.

You'll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

At a certified Great Place to Work you'll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities

Senior Data Scientists enable the design, development, integration and testing of complex, high quality data science solutions and services to meet user needs, continually improving the application of best practice patterns, methods and tools. This includes:

  • Build effective working relationships with client counterparts in your practitioner domain, and those of a partner / 3rd party organisation
  • Own the end-to-end implementation and design of data science models/components, seeking guidance and input from Lead and Principal Data Scientists where necessary
  • Help structure and provide technical assurance for the work of less experienced practitioners, enabling them to maximise quality and velocity. Monitor the application of the methods and requirements, pro-actively managing technical risks and issues
  • Collaborating with practitioners from other disciplines (e.g. UCD, Engineering) to ensure the solution meets user and business needs
  • Take technical responsibility for the delivery of high-quality data science services on smaller engagements, across all stages (design, build, test, deploy, operate and continually improve), in line with best practice
  • Work with Delivery Managers to inform estimates for research and development activities, enabling them to plan technical activities, including how teams and work should be structured
  • Proactively identify and help mitigate technical risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
  • Maintain relevant, up-to-date practitioner skills through training and accreditation, including a domain-relevant accreditation/certification at professional level
  • Being an active member of the Data Science discipline, identifying area for growth across the business, and providing coaching for less experienced practitioners


Requirements

  • Background in Agile delivery environments, delivering software solutions in controlled increments (e.g., following Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, etc.)
  • Experience working with cloud-based solutions and technologies (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
  • Hands-on knowledge of designing and implementing solutions capable of handling sensitive data (e.g., Personally Identifiable Information).
  • Strong knowledge of a programming languages for data science (Python, R, etc.) including best practices using this language to write robust software
  • An understanding of data governance and best practices to ensure data protection
  • Experience planning technical activities and structuring work for a team
  • Being able to provide commercially robust estimates of development activities
  • Experience providing practitioner guidance to junior colleagues and peers
  • Understanding of how to operationalise and deploy a Data Science solution in a live environment
  • A bachelor's degree in a STEM field


Desirable Skills And Experience

  • Experience working in a professional services/consultancy environment preferred
  • Experience solving natural language processing problems
  • Experience creating generative AI applications, such as chatbots or RAG retrieval systems
  • Stay up to date with cutting edge of AI, reading research papers, attending conferences, etc
  • Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and projects
  • Ability to explain and simplify complex information to stakeholders, gathering and translating business requirements, anticipating any obstacles to information flow
  • Understanding of different databases (Relational and NoSQL) and optimising queries for effective data manipulation
  • A master's degree or PhD in a STEM field


Personal Qualities

  • You are hands on, working within a team to solve complex software and feature problems
  • Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions and consider different perspectives
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy
  • Able to plan and organise your own work, effectively negotiating priorities crossing multiple teams across the business
  • Able to collaborate with other areas of the business to solve problems
  • Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies


Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

  • InformedACADEMY - We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications
  • Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support
  • Hybrid working*
  • Private Health Care Cover*
  • Generous life assurance cover*
  • Gym Membership*
  • Monthly office lunch
  • Onsite massage sessions
  • 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
  • Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
  • Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
  • Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
  • Company Pension Contribution
  • Profit Share Scheme
  • Payment of professional subscriptions
  • Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
  • Salary Sacrifice scheme*
  • Qualifying period applies


Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We're a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
  • IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting

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