Lead Data Scientist Permanent

Lead Data Scientist to join a world-class defence organisation.

Role:
Lead Data Scientist

Location:
Portsmouth
With a Hybrid role, remote working and office based work

Type:
Permanent

Salary:
Up To £62,000 DOE + Bonus + Benefits

Benefits:
Employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. They also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Flexible Working: 
Our client embraces flexible and modern working arrangements and feel this is an important part of the benefits that we have on offer. It helps them to create a diverse and inclusive workplace.

About the role of a Lead Data Scientist;

You will be leading the development of new and existing products as well as guiding original research to enhance knowledge base and capability within the field of Prognostics and Health Management. Working with various data sets including time-series, text data and transactional records, you will be using innovative machine learning techniques to deliver novel insights to support our engineering teams. This role will enable you to put your curiosity and skills into play and allow you to work with various stakeholders via exposure to different areas of the business.

This role will provide you with opportunities to advise, mentor and guide others in aspects of data science, the role will give you the opportunity to be part of a fast-growing team with working with different stakeholders and getting exposure to different areas of the business. Hybrid working and flexible hours are available to suit our candidates’ needs.

Main responsibilities of a Lead Data Scientist;

• Working with SMEs and functional leaders to develop opportunities for the application of data science to improve business operations
• Leading by example in your application of machine learning techniques, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics with complex datasets
• Leading the development and deployment of data science workflows to streamline business processes for agile decision making
• Supporting the Discipline Lead in maintaining high quality of output from the Data Science team by promoting best practice
• Visualising results of data analysis, designing dashboards and presenting using storytelling methods
• Analysing large and diverse datasets to provide clear and actionable insights for a range of business applications
• Championing the effective use of data within the business.
• Promoting collaboration between data science capabilities across the business units
• Leading the regular reporting of data science output to internal and external stakeholders
• Researching and implementing new data science techniques via literature reviews and engagement with academia / system subject matter experts
• Presenting novel research and insights to stakeholders with different levels of technical understanding

Your skills and qualifications as a Lead Data Scientist;

• Significant experience using Python and its application to data science projects
• Strong working background in statistics
• Experience using machine learning frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, Pytorch)
• Experience working with time-series data
• Experience of model optimisation and hyper parameter tuning
• Proven track record implementing the data science lifecycle to projects for a successful outcome
• Experience building machine learning models for GPU hardware
• Experience working with a range of data sources (e.g. SQL, No-SQL, APIs, flat-files)
• A degree in a relevant subject or experience of working in a similar role
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence decision making

If the role of Lead Data Scientist sounds right for you, please make an application and a member of the Team will be in contact immediately.

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