Data Scientist

My client is a successful multi-domain data consultancy business headquartered in Edinburgh and operating with offices in both London and Bristol. The business is enjoying sustained growth.

Their practice brings together experts across key business sectors including Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Retail Banking, Energy, and Telecoms. 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.

The ideal candidate's favourite words are learning, data, scale, and agility. You will leverage your strong collaboration skills and ability to extract valuable insights from highly complex data sets.

Responsibilities

• Analyse raw data: assessing quality, cleansing, structuring for downstream processing
• Develop predictive models that deliver tangible value
• Translate business requirements into analytical solutions using the most appropriate data science techniques.
• Translate technical output into transparent and actionable business insights

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in quantative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.)
• At least 1 - 2 years' of experience in quantitative analytics or data modelling
• Understanding, development and application of predictive modelling in a supervised and unsupervised context, machine-learning, clustering and classification techniques
• Fluency in a programming language (Python, R, Java, SQL)
• Familiarity with Big Data frameworks and visualization tools
• Ability to translate standard analytical solutions into transparent and actionable business insight
• Inquisitive mind and a practical problem solver
• Confidence to learn new technology stacks and how to operationalize data science solutions.

This is an opportunity to join a growing business with a stellar reputation for developing people. You will benefit from their continuous learning and knowledge sharing ethos, with clear pathways for progression.

Apply as directed above, or contact Campbell Pratt [email protected] for a confidential discussion. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.