Overview
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of data-driven solutions that address complex challenges faced by the public sector.
- Design, develop, and maintain predictive models, statistical analyses, and machine learning algorithms to extract insights from large, complex datasets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into data solutions.
- Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns and trends that inform strategic decision-making.
- Develop and implement data visualization techniques to effectively communicate insights to diverse audiences.
- Stay current with advancements in data science, machine learning, and AI, integrating new methodologies and tools as appropriate.
- Ensure all data handling practices comply with relevant data privacy laws and government regulations.
- Mentor junior data scientists, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
Required education
Bachelor\'s Degree
Preferred education
Master\'s Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Master\'s degree or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist, with a solid background in the public sector or government agency (GDS).
- Expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning techniques, and data mining.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, SQL, and tools like Jupyter Notebooks, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
- Experience with big data platforms (Hadoop, Spark) and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, with the capacity to work with large, complex datasets.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly and persuasively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Understanding of government data privacy policies and regulations is highly desirable.
- Ability to work independently on projects, managing time effectively and meeting tight deadlines.
Join us in leveraging data to drive innovation and efficiency in the public sector. If you\'re passionate about using data to solve real-world problems and have relevant experience in the public sector, we welcome your application.
IBM Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
*Note: Candidates without experience in public sector or agovernment agency will not be considered for this position.*
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
Job Title
Data Scientist (Public Sector)
Job ID
58103
City / Township / Village
State / Province
Country
United Kingdom
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Data & Analytics
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Company
Shift
General (daytime)
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