Senior Data Scientist

Anson McCade
London
2 months ago
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Job Description

This is an exciting time to join a team to help pioneer both customer's and own an AI adoption journey. Not only will you be directly making a huge impact through the solutions you develop, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.


Core duties

• Being a key technical point-of-contact for AI and data science expertise, sharing knowledge across meetings, bids and technical projects.

• Leading and working on technical AI projects, working with ML engineers, project managers and non-technical customers.

• Meeting with users to help scope out ongoing and future AI projects, understanding use-cases and planning out delivery plans which capture the subtleties of the requirements.

• Working alongside ML engineers to help build and deploy models into products across our AWS cloud services

• Assisting with writing bid responses to customer problems, often requiring diving into the literature surrounding complex technical concepts in AI, ML and statistics.

• Presenting results of technical work both internally and to our customers.

• Helping mentor and manage junior team members and graduates across the business.

• Helping to educate others across the business in AI and related methods through collaborative work (including software engineers, leadership, non-technical consultants) and pre...

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