Data Scientist

Permanent / £80000.00 - £85000.00 per annum

Data Scientist – AI & Machine Learning | FinTech Innovation
Location: Hybrid – Central London
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary £80,000+

My client, a leading fintech, is searching for a Data scientist to join their team. The client is backed by major banks and market leaders and is creating a collaborative, data-driven platform that connects firms and transforms risk control processes. They are now looking to add a furtherData Scientistwith a strong grasp of machine learning, LLMs, and graph-based methods to help us shape the future of risk intelligence.

About the Role
You’ll be at the forefront of AI innovation within their platform – identifying how ML and LLMs can improve both client-facing value and internal efficiency. You’ll work closely with an intellectually curious, cross-functional team to design and implement production-ready ML solutions, particularly around recommender systems, NLP, and advanced data pipelines.

What You’ll Be Doing

Evolving and improving their recommender system methodology for better automation and alignment Exploring and applying state-of-the-art graph-based AI techniques Leveraging LLMs and unstructured data to extract meaningful insights Building prompt engineering strategies into our LLM-driven tools Writing production-grade Python code for ML pipelines Contributing to MLOps and LLMOps best practices

What You’ll Bring

Proven experience in a Data Science or ML-focused role Strong understanding of recommender systems and statistical/ML techniques Experience working with natural language data and LLMs Excellent Python programming skills and strong data visualisation/feature engineering experience A creative, research-driven mindset and a passion for exploring new data-driven use cases

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