Lead Data Scientist - London - £75,000

Tenth Revolution Group
London
1 year ago
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Lead Data Scientist

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Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist - London - £75,000I am working with a growing consultancy who specialise in Data, Cyber Security and communications who are looking for a Technical Consultant to join their team. Over the past two years they have steadily grown their team in line with an expanding client base.In this role you will be positioned to help continue to drive business performance. Creative and innovate ideas are encouraged and the business are looking to hire industry experts to add value to their team.You will be client facing and take the lead on a number of exciting data science focused projects. You will work to understand the current data infrastructure of the specific clients before offering top-class advice on how data science can be used to drive performance. You will also be responsible for building proof of concepts designs based on your advice and presenting them to clients to enable them to understand your vision for improvements.This is an exciting time to join the business so please reach out to learn more about the team. As part of this role, you will be responsible for -Lead on client projects and be SME for Data Science/ML/AIWork with differing data sets and modelling them ready for use in data science practicesAnalyse and interpret data to help deliver insightsDevelop models and algorithms that can be integrated into client infrastructureTo be successful in this role you will have.Taken the lead on data science projectsStrong Python coding experienceExperience working on cloud-based infrastructure (Azure, AWS or GCP)Experience with CI/CD tooling to build and deploy codeDue to the nature of this role, eligibility for SC clearance is essentialThis is a hybrid role where you will travel to the company office or client site up to 3 times per week depending on project needs. My client is offering a starting salary of up to £75,000 depending on experience and offer a comprehensive benefits package.This is just a brief overview of the role. For the full information, simply apply to the role with your CV, and I will call you to discuss further. My client is looking to begin the interview process ASAP, so don't miss out, APPLY now! Tenth Revolution Group are the go-to recruiter for Power BI and Azure Data Platform roles in the UK offering more opportunities across the country than any other recruitment agency. We're the proud sponsor and supporter of SQLBits, Power Platform World Tour, the London Power BI User Group, Newcastle Power BI User Group and Newcastle Data Platform and Cloud User Group. We are the global leaders in Microsoft recruitment

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