Senior Data Scientist

Harnham
united kingdom, united kingdom, united kingdom
8 months ago
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Senior Data Scientist – Forecasting

Remote - (Office in London)

Up to £70,000


About the Role

We are working with an exciting Tech company who are seeking a Full Stack Data Scientist to join their Forecasting Algorithms team. The company's aim is to use cutting edge Machine Learning techniques to influence decision making in the hospitality and transportation spacce.


You’ll be at the forefront of developingforecastingmodels, and supporting pricing strategies. This is a hands-on role where you'll own model development end-to-end—from design and testing to deployment and monitoring.


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead efforts to improve the performance and scalability of deployed forecasting models.
  • Design and build internal ML and forecasting libraries.
  • Contribute to product planning by translating business objectives into measurable results.
  • Champion best practices in model development, validation, and inference pipelines.
  • Stay current with state-of-the-art techniques in AI and ML and apply them effectively.
  • Work closely with technical and non technical stakeholders.


What You’ll Bring

  • PhD is highly preferred!
  • Strong experience building and implementingforecastingmodels using modern ML techniques.
  • Deep understanding of time series analysis, statistics, and forecasting methodologies.
  • Production-level Python programming skills (Pandas, Polars, Scikit-learn, NumPy, SciPy).
  • Comfort working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.


Please note, this role cannot offer sponsorship at this stage

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