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Senior Data Scientist (Natural Language Processing)

Registers of Scotland
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Talent Acquisition Specialist @ Registers of Scotland | Recruitment Consultant | End-to-End Recruitment

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Pay Supplement:

The base salary for this role is £46,677 - £54,957
This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 24% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension : 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
Annual Leave:

38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration : Permanent
Working Pattern : 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns.
Location : Hybrid working model. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD). You will be expected to occasionally visit either of these office locations and attend events in other locations as per the requirements of the role.
Grade:

Senior Executive Officer
Closing date : 10 July at 11.59pm
Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. RoS is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. We work to create data-led, digital solutions for the people of Scotland. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house.
The Role
This is an exciting new role aimed at growing our data science capability, and the adoption of data-driven methods (including ML/AI) more widely within the business. You will work with colleagues across the business to help solve complex business problems, unlock insight and value from semi-structured and structured data, support data-driven decision-making and develop new data products for internal and external customers. The role may develop to include line management responsibility as the team grows.
On a typical day you will…
Work closely with a range of colleagues to identify, formulate and solve business problems.
Develop credible rule or model-based methodologies to discover knowledge, create data products, data-driven tools and reports and to improve data quality.
Explore, analyse and transform complex land and property data in a range of formats and structures. In particular, process semi- or unstructured legal text to extract meaningful information.
Document methodologies to deliver reproducible and explainable work.
Use suitable evaluation strategies and metrics to evaluate outputs.
Gather feedback and monitor the continued performance and accuracy of outputs, including of trained models, as applicable.
Build understanding of RoS data, business processes, strategic objectives and the policy environment in which we operate.
Draw on government and industry standards and frameworks, and adhere to the UK Government data ethics framework.
Communicate insights and results to technical and non-technical audiences using presentations, data visualisation and storytelling.
Build awareness of technical, regulatory and social developments in the industry.
Support the development of the team by participating in strategy development, communities of practice and team capability building.
This job is for you if you want…
Work with purpose:

we strive to provide the best public service for Scotland and set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
Flexible and hybrid working: , work when and where it’s best for you and your stakeholders, depending on the role and team requirements.
Benefits:

enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 29%, up to a year’s parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Investment in professional development:

we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
Diversity and Inclusion:

We are an ‘Investor in People’ and a ‘Disability Confident’ employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
Positive work culture:

RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology. Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
Our Tech stack across the business
Backend:

Java, Python and Spring Boots
DevOps:

AWS. CI/CD, Kubernetes and OpenShift
Data:

Hadoop, Microsoft SQL Server, Pandas, PowerBI, PostgreSQL, Pytorch, Spark, TensorFlow and Tableau
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Seniority level

Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type

Employment type Full-time
Job function

Job function Information Technology
Industries Government Administration
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