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Data Scientist

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United Kingdom · Full-time · Entry
hackajob is collaborating with Zaizi to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: London - Hybrid however some flexibility (1 day)

Employment: [Perm / Contract]

Salary Brackets

£45k-65k

Introduction

Zaizi is a software consultancy specialising in building bespoke digital solutions using open source software and cloud platforms. We primarily work with central government agencies and adhere to the Government Digital Service standard. We are looking for a product-focused Data Scientist to join our engineering team, passionate about delivering high-quality data-driven solutions.

Role Overview

As a Data Scientist at Zaizi, you will be responsible for analysing data to find and bring value to our clients. This involves a mixture of business acumen and technical expertise in data science disciplines. You will be digging through data to deliver data-driven, machine learning solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of projects and initiatives.
  • Deliver at pace and have a "get things done" attitude.
  • Develop scrappy exploratory code and code that adheres to best practices and production-ready standards.
  • Design and implement workflows
  • Optimising data pipelines to improve clients performance and scalability whilst maintaining their data integrity
  • Monitor and ensure observability of deployed solutions.
  • Collaborate with technical and non-technical team members.
  • Apply various machine learning techniques, understanding their benefits and drawbacks.
  • Supporting Zaizi in response to ML bid requirements
  • Choose the appropriate machine learning technique for the task at hand.
  • Understand when simpler solutions are more effective than complex ones.
  • Work within a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with other teams.
  • Implement and follow ML Ops best practices with deep frameworks
  • Deploy models to production, ideally as serverless applications.
  • Understand and implement data protection and security practices.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based deployment.

Requirements

  • Action-oriented and eager to take ownership of projects and initiative.
  • Start-up mindset.
  • A problem solver with the ability to be client facing
  • Ability to switch from exploratory code to production-ready code.
  • Passion for monitoring and observability of deployed solutions.
  • Proactive and collaborative approach to problem-solving.
  • Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts.
  • Broad knowledge of various Machine Learning techniques.
  • Understanding of when simpler solutions are more effective.
  • Team player who loves working within a multidisciplinary team.

Experience

  • Strong proficiency in Python and Data Science libraries like scikit-learn or equivalent.
  • Experience with SQL/Databricks for data exploration.
  • Ability to explain data science concepts and solutions to broad audiences.
  • Proven record of deploying models to production, ideally as serverless applications.

Desirable

  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
  • Experience with LLMs.

Nobody checks every box, and we don’t expect you to! If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement.

Key Skills

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machine learning cloud serverless technical expertise security practices containerization kubernetes python docker cicd
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Posted
May 01, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Entry
Location
London
Company
hackajob

Industries

Software Development

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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