Senior Data Scientist

Kleboe Jardine Ltd
Nottingham
11 months ago
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My client is a successful multi-domain data consultancy business headquartered inEdinburghand operating with offices in bothLondonandBristol. The business is enjoying sustained growth.


Their practice brings together experts across key business sectors including Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Retail Banking, Energy, and Telecoms. Within these domains, the business partners with industry-leading blue-chip organisations while also remaining well connected to academia and retaining a focus on R&D. This is an incredibly stimulating environment.


The team are obsessive about delivering value for clients and working in a collaborative, engaged and creative way with colleagues and partner businesses.


This Data Scientist role is suited towards candidates with3-5 years of work experience who have technical skills in ML model development, advanced statistics and commercial acumen.


The Role:

  • As aSenior Data Scientist, you will be a technical specialist, developing and implement ML models that deliver tangible value to clients.
  • You will engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into analytical solutions using the most appropriate data science techniques.
  • You will engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into analytical solutions using the most appropriate data science techniques.
  • Act as a thought leader, designing solutions from a theoretical standpoint through to practical execution.
  • The role can be remote within the UK.


The Profile:

  • Broad experience of using a range of predictive modelling and machine learning techniques to tackle business problems across commercial sectors.
  • Ability to translate complex analytical solutions into transparent and actionable business insight.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Advanced knowledge of statistics and ML techniques (both supervised and unsupervised), knowledge of emerging technologies e.g. Reinforcement Learning is advantageous.
  • Advanced user of Python and/or R, with cloud analytics experience.


This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate experienced data scientist with ambition to grow their career. To apply and grow their analytics skills in multi-disciplinary project teams and collaborate in a fast-growing data science community.


Visa sponsorship is not provided with this role.

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