Data Scientist

Our client are a medium sized defence consultancy looking for a Data Scientist to join their team.

You’ll be joining a small, highly skilled technical team working on a live AI computer vision capability within a secure defence environment. The team focuses on sustaining and enhancing a production system, delivering incremental improvements and new use cases rather than experimental or research-based work.

The client is specifically looking for a DV-cleared Data Scientist with strong Python skills, proven experience supporting AI or computer vision models in production, hands-on MLOps experience (MLflow, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes), familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab or Jenkins, and a solid understanding of data engineering concepts including ETL and scalable data pipelines.

Working Patterns: This will be full time on site in London

The Key Responsibilities of a Job Title:

• Sustain and optimise a live AI computer vision model in a secure production environment.
  
  
• Enhance existing AI capability through new features, use cases, and performance improvements.
  
  
• Manage the full ML lifecycle using MLOps best practices to ensure stability and repeatability.
  
  
• Deploy and update models using CI/CD pipelines while minimising risk to live systems.
  
  
• Ensure all solutions meet required security, ethical, and regulatory standards.
  
  
• Design and support scalable, resilient data pipelines integrated with wider platforms
  
  Below is a list of Key Skills required for the job role, however you will not be expected to have everything:
  
  
• Strong Python development skills for production AI solutions.
  
  
• Experience supporting AI or computer vision models in live environments.
  
  
• Hands-on MLOps experience (e.g. MLflow, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes).
  
  
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab or Jenkins.
  
  
• Understanding of data engineering concepts, including ETL and data pipelines.
  
  
• Experience designing or working with scalable, cloud-native system architectures.
  
  Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
  
  Part-time opportunities/flexible working is available to suit individual needs.
  
  Please note that the client has determined that the off-payroll working rules will apply to this assignment and therefore this contract will be run through an Umbrella Company. Income tax and primary national insurance contributions will be deducted at source from any payments made to the intermediary.
  
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  You will be required to hold a minimum of DV clearance. If you do not hold an active DV clearance, please familiarise yourself with the vetting process before applying.
  
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