Senior Data Scientist

Adepta Partners Limited
Belfast
2 months ago
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Senior Data Scientist Cutting edge Tech and Modelling! Hybrid / Enhanced Parental Leave / Private Healthcare & Dental for Self & Family / 15% Bonus / Competitive Salary / WFH Allowance / L&D Budget / Paid Certifications An exciting NI Team is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to join their growing team! As a member of the Data Science team, you will be instrumental in delivering and deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning models that drive their long term success. Ambition and talent is rewarded, the culture is unrivalled and the tech is ground breaking! Who Are They? A fast-growing, data-driven tech company with around 80 of Belfasts best and brightest minds in their very modern city centre office. Their world is data They do it better than anyone else. What Do They Do? They empower consumers and help to build their customers businesses. Data is their way of life! Everyone in the firm is a technologist at heart but theyre all about people and collaboration, and theyre damn good at that bit too! The Data Science Team really took off in Belfast in 2024 and there is a large pipeline of exciting work for the Data Science team to work on. You will be joining a team of talented and collaborative data scientists and machine learning engineers eager to grow the business and deliver measurable results. Youll be making a real impact and youll see the difference that you are making easily! There has never been a better time to join them as a Senior Data Scientist! What do you need? More than four years of hands-on work in data science, delivering insights and analytical solutions. Proven ability to design, build, and deploy predictive models in real-world production environments Track record of reframing business challenges as data-driven questions and crafting creative, sometimes unconventional, analytical solutions. Experience creating machine-learning models with commonly used frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, R) to generate measurable business impact. Highly proficient in Python for scientific and statistical computing, comfortable working in SQL, and experienced using Jupyter notebooks. Familiar with structuring and packaging code for deployment, versioning, and reuse. What are they offering? They provide one of the most comprehensive benefits packages on the market. Hybrid working Market leading salary + bonus Private Medical for you and your family Dental Cover for you and your family Matched pension Work-From-Home Learning + Development allowance Free lunch Tuesdays Skills: data SQL Python R Agile methodologies Benefits: Hybrid Performance Bonus Private Medical Dental Pension

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