Lead Data Scientist

VIXIO GamblingCompliance
London
4 months ago
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This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-impact team, mentor junior talent, and drive innovation in a fast-growing company. You’ll work alongside industry experts, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and have the freedom to explore new technologies and methodologies.

At Vixio, we’re on a mission to revolutionize how businesses manage regulatory obligations through cutting-edge RegTech solutions combined with our human expertise. Join us as our Lead Data Scientist and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of regulatory intelligence.

About the role:

As our Lead Data Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering data-driven solutions that power our regulatory scanning, analytics, and generative AI capabilities.

You’ll take ownership of complex data science problems end-to-end, from framing business challenges with stakeholders, to deploying production-ready solutions. We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, takes initiative, and delivers measurable results.

Working closely with the Head of Regulatory Scanning and CTO, you will help define the long-term data science strategy, set technical direction, and ensure scalable, best-practice deployment across our products. You will also act as a mentor and coach to junior data scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of experimentation, quality, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will bring:

  • Proven expertise in data processing and content generation at scale, particularly within AWS environments.
  • A track record of leading teams, influencing stakeholders, and delivering impactful ML and analytics solutions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance hands-on technical delivery and strategic leadership.
  • Proven ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously, adapting quickly to changing priorities and collaborating across teams to ensure timely delivery.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity, defining problems as well as solving them.

Key Responsibilities:

As a high-growth, PE-backed SaaS company, we operate with pace, focus, and accountability. We are looking for someone who is energized by that environment and excited to build data-driven capabilities that support real-world impact at scale.

Data Modeling, Gen-AI and Predictive Analytics

  • Design, build and maintain data pipelines for ingesting and processing large volumes of regulatory data from diverse sources, both structured and unstructured.
  • Develop models for data categorization and content generation, as well as methods to cluster, store and surface data insights captured.
  • Ensure the accuracy, quality, and relevance of data insights captured can be monitored and assessed, refining methods for prioritising based on customer impact.
  • Leverage predictive analytics to identify emerging regulatory trends and potential future changes, creating models to forecast the impact of regulatory changes on different industries and jurisdictions

Leadership and Strategy:

  • Provide strategic direction and technical guidance for data science initiatives working closely with the Head of Regulatory Scanning.
  • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and compliance teams to translate business needs into data science solutions that are scalable, measurable, and aligned to commercial outcomes.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers and regulatory analysts to integrate solutions into Vixio’s tech stack.
  • Own the lifecycle of solutions, from problem definition through to measurement of business impact.
  • Mentor and develop analysts and data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Education and Experience:

  • 5+ years experience in Data Science, leading and developing new initiatives to drive transformation and/or efficiency in RegTech, FinTech, or other related industries.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.

Technical Skills:

  • Hands-on proficiency with AWS cloud platform solutions and the challenges and opportunities around ML model management.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and database management, as well as programming languages such as Python, R, or similar.
  • Strong experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Scikit-learn) as well as familiarity with data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).

About Vixio:

Our mission is to empower businesses to efficiently manage and meet their regulatory obligations with our unique combination of human expertise and Regulatory Technology (RegTech) SaaS strategy.

We deliver comprehensive, time-sensitive, and actionable regulatory intelligence across the globe. Today, the Vixio platform surfaces data and information on regulations spanning more than 180 jurisdictions worldwide to remove the risk of non-compliance in the gaming, payments, and financial industries.

We are now in an exciting new chapter of growth as we develop our Regulatory Scanning capabilities to increase operational efficiency, and expand our coverage to multiple industries and jurisdictions.

Hybrid Working (2/3 days in the office)


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