Senior Data Scientist

Paradigm Tech
London
4 months ago
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Overview

I am currently working with a brilliant consultancy with deep expertise in their field of Data and Cyber Security solutions, predominantly with Central Government organisations but they also have strong ties with Defence and Telco. They have experienced impressive growth over the last few years and as a result they are involved in some of the most challenging yet rewarding large scale technical projects in the country.


They are currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist. This will be a blend of client facing skills, the ability to understand business problems, create novel models/ solutions to help the client, and communicate clearly the solution. This role focuses on you being the main POC for major clients combined with technical leadership of the wider team across various projects.


Responsibilities


  • Serve as the main point of contact (POC) for major clients and provide technical leadership of the wider team across various projects.
  • Understand business problems, create novel models/solutions, and clearly communicate the solution to clients.


Key Skills


  • Excellent knowledge of Python and the supporting machine learning and analytics tools
  • Happy in a client facing capacity and able to relay complex solutions simply to the clients needs
  • Experience managing client relationships, projects and technical teams essential
  • Experience of deep analysis gaining actionable insight from often unstructured large datasets
  • Experience working with machine learning models.
  • Experience with mainstream cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP preferred
  • An understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker and associated orchestration tools preferred
  • Need to be SC clearable (5 years in the UK without leaving for longer than 3 months) and willing to do so for this position, current or previous SC clearance preferred


Seniority level


  • Mid-Senior level


Employment type


  • Full-time


Job function


  • Analyst, Consulting, and Engineering


Industries


  • IT Services and IT Consulting and Information Services


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