Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist – National Security & Advanced Analytics

Location: London / Hybrid | Full-time

Salary: Up to £65,000 + Bonus + package

Overview

A leading digital and analytics consultancy supporting critical public sector and national security programmes is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its growing AI capability. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact challenges across defence, security and government environments, applying cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems.

You will work across exploratory research, bespoke AI solution development and large-scale data platforms, engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and delivering robust, production-ready analytics.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical point of contact for AI, data science and statistical expertise across projects and bids
• Lead and contribute to complex AI / ML delivery alongside ML engineers, project managers and client stakeholders
• Scope and shape AI use-cases with customers, translating requirements into delivery roadmaps
• Build, test and deploy machine learning models into cloud-based products and services
• Contribute to bid responses, including research into advanced AI / ML and statistical methods
• Present analytical findings and recommendations to internal teams and external customers
• Mentor and support junior data scientists and graduates
• Promote data science capability across the wider business through knowledge-sharing, blogs, events and presentations

Required skills & qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, physics, computer science or similar
• Several years’ experience working as a data scientist in industry or a comparable environment
• Strong knowledge of AI, machine learning and statistical techniques across domains such as NLP, images, audio, graphs, time series and tabular data
• Advanced Python skills with experience using libraries such as pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, transformers, statsmodels or PyMC
• Strong understanding of software and ML engineering best practice (e.g. version control, packaging, model deployment)
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience working with cloud platforms for training and deploying models
• Strong appreciation of ethics, privacy, security and policy considerations in applied AI
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance and willing to undergo the process

Desirable experience

• Practical knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, Bedrock, S3 or SageMaker
• MLOps and ML engineering tooling (e.g. Docker, MLflow)
• Experience working in highly regulated or government environments
• Track record of applying large language models to solve real-world business problems

Summary

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-calibre AI team working on mission-critical national security and public sector programmes. You will combine deep technical work with stakeholder engagement, influence the direction of AI adoption, and directly contribute to solving some of the UK’s most complex and sensitive challenges — all within a flexible, hybrid working environment that supports long-term career growth.

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