Role overview
A strong academic background, managing experience and multiple years of work experience in a range of mathematical / physical models / statistical models / machine learning methods, including:
- Strong Programming background and experience of deployment of production standard code as part of data science workflows: Python or R - writing functionally and/or OOP
- Experience working with cloud computing environments such as GCP (mandatory) , AWS and Azure
- Experience in git with collaborative development of data science workflows / products through DevOps
- Supervised and unsupervised learning, simulation, optimisation, graph theory and model validation
- Strong intuition and enthusiasm for data including statistical and machine learning principles
- Tenacity in problem solving, with particular emphasis on perseverance and following the scientific method
- Competence in and interest in using multiple data sources, including wrangling of complex data
- Previous line reporting and the desire to develop further as a people leader is a pre-requisite
- Comfortable at line managing and organising the workload and support the career development of other data science members of the team
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.