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Senior Data Scientist

Accurx
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3 months ago
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How you'll be contributing to Accurx as a Senior Data Scientist...

As a Senior Data Scientist you’ll be working within the product community to identify key product improvements and support the product strategy & the roadmap: you’ll be solving real world problems and building a product that is going to impact every single person in the UK!

You’ll use statistical and machine learning techniques to analyse data and develop models to understand key drivers and you’ll lead experimentation design to improve the product experience of our users.

You’ll lead projects to explore and extract valuable information from our data and work closely with the product teams to advise on data collection improvements.

You’ll help drive the maturity of the Data Science & Analytics sub team by setting the foundation needed to move our analysis capabilities from descriptive & diagnostic to predictive & prescriptive.

Your day to day tasks, should you choose to accept this mission ...

  • Solve problems adaptively and value rigour and simplicity over complicated solutions

  • Make appropriate trade-offs between speed and accuracy as you’ll be working in a fast-moving environment

  • Code for scalability, creating re-usable scripts and utilities that brings data science as a discipline to the next level

  • Work closely with Product Managers supporting and suggesting experiments, time series forecasting and building predictive models (including ML)

  • Code for privacy & security, keeping our users and patients privacy and security in mind all the time and suggesting processes and technologies for anonymisation

  • Work closely with Product leads in designing and validating success metrics as well as helping them to measure progress and align with the business objectives (OKRs setting)

  • Support & mature the company data culture so that decisions are supported and/or driven by data

We'd really like to hear from you, if ...

  • Proven expertise in designing, executing, and analysing complex experiments end-to-end.

  • Hands-on experience with statistical techniques (e.g., regressions, matching) and machine learning models (e.g., Naive Bayes, XGBoost).

  • Strong Python and SQL skills, including writing reusable, standardised code and working in analytical environments like Snowflake.

  • Experience conducting exploratory data analysis, including visualisations and identifying product key drivers.

  • Ability to collaborate with product teams, set success metrics (OKRs), and align insights with business goals.

  • Familiarity with best practices for handling sensitive data, ensuring privacy and anonymity.

What we can offer...

£70,000 - £85,000 salary + the value of £50,750 share options
Access toHappl- a flexible benefits provider with a given budget of £600 to spend on perks of your choice. Options include private health insurance, wellness providers and more.

We are office first, all accuFolk come to ourofficein Shoreditch at least 3 days per week, with the option to work remotely 2 days a week. Read more about our policyhere.

Allocated annual learning & development budget

Enhanced parental leave policy

Prayer, meditation and breastfeeding room

Working abroad policy

We have our very own Chef! Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!

...And muchmore.

Like the sound of this role and want to know more about the company? Here's more about us...

We’re a fast-growing healthcare technology company which makes it easier for patients and healthcare teams to communicate.

Accurx is where conversations happen with and about patients. Our software helps doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators and other professionals to seamlessly connect with both patients and each other.

Our mission is simple: everything we do is to make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier. Today, Accurx is used in 98% of GP practices nationwide and every day more healthcare professionals are using our software in hospitals, pharmacies, care homes and the community.

We’re passionate about staying close to our users, which is why everyone at Accurx visits a GP practice at least twice a quarter to understand how a practice runs, the difficulties they face with technologies and how we can help.

Head over to our maincareers pageto find out more about the team and ourcandidate hub.

You can also find out more about us onMedium,LinkedInandTwitter&Instagram.

OurYouTubechannel is full of demos of our product, webinars we have held with our users and some clips about life at Accurx.

Diversity & Inclusion

Accurx is committed to being an inclusive employer.As part of this, we’re glad to accommodate candidates who needadjustments throughout the interview process.

Pre-employment Screening

All successful candidates are asked to complete aBasic DBScheck along with other pre-employment checks (referencing & right to work). You can find more on our processhere. If you’d like to ask questions before you apply please email .


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