Senior Data Scientist

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Manchester, United Kingdom
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£60,000 – £75,000 pa

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£60,000 – £75,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
30 Apr 2026 (Today)
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Senior Data Scientist -2 days a month in London

A great opportunity to join a team building advanced conversational AI and NLP products for financial services. This role is ideal if you enjoy modern LLMs, problem solving, and bringing machine learning models into production.

The Company
They are a growing data and AI organisation developing conversational tools, data assistants, and NLP solutions for analytics and trading teams. Their work spans LLM fine tuning, automation, and website chatbots, supported by strong engineering and DevOps functions. They operate an AWS environment and encourage collaboration across teams.


The Role

  • Build and fine tune LLMs and NLP models for analytics and conversational products.
  • Apply mathematical and quantitative thinking to financial use cases.
  • Develop ML pipelines, model evaluation processes, and production ready code.
  • Work with engineers to deploy models in AWS.
  • Support and guide mid level Data Scientists.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in Python, machine learning, and NLP.
  • Hands on work with LLMs, fine tuning, and modern ML tooling.
  • Ability to understand quantitative concepts for trading and financial analytics.
  • Experience working in cloud based engineering environments, ideally AWS.
  • Comfortable collaborating with cross functional teams.

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