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Job Reference:21742
Package Description:
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Salary:£69,000 - £79,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type:Permanent
Location:Salford, Glasgow, Newcastle, London. This is a hybrid role.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
Excellent career progression:The BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities:Our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of courses and certification.
Benefits:We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme, and discounted dental, health care, and gym.
Job Introduction:
The BBC has been serving audiences online for more than 20 years. We are making the shift from being a broadcaster to becoming a service that is directly shaped by our audiences.
We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist to join the Content Discovery (Recommendations) team. The successful candidate will be a technical leader in a cross-functional team of data scientists, engineers, product managers, editorial, and UX designers.
Interview Process:
- Hiring manager introductory call covering role background and candidate motivations for applying.
- 1.5 hour panel interview including a technical presentation from the candidate and role relevant competency based questions.
Main Responsibilities:
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will work hands-on to deliver value to BBC audiences by developing data science products at scale. You will do hands-on coding work to develop, deploy and iterate on recommender systems, lead architecture design, implement ideas from recent research papers, do code reviews and set best practices.
Key Criteria:
- Extensive hands-on experience in data science and machine learning.
- Strong coding skills in Python.
- Experience developing and deploying recommender systems.
- Proven track record contributing to technical machine learning projects.
- Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience with model lifecycle management and MLOps.
- Good knowledge of cloud services, ideally AWS.
- Knowledge of best practices such as testing, code management and deployment.
- Mentorship of other team members.
You are encouraged to apply even if you don’t meet every one of the criteria above!
About The BBC:
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons.
We value diversity and are committed to being truly inclusive.
Seniority level:Mid-Senior level
Employment type:Full-time
Job function:Engineering and Information Technology
Industries:Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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