Skills

Python Stakeholder Management Training Azure AWS Agile Recruitment GCP Data Science NLP

Job Specifications

Lead Data Scientist

Location: South Manchester – Hybrid (after 3 months)

Salary: £65,000-£80,000 (Negotiable)

Type: Permanent

We are hiring a Lead Data Scientist to join a growing, customer facing data science practice within an established digital transformation consultancy.

You will deliver impactful tech for good programmes across Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Digital Democracy, working directly with customers to solve complex, high value problems.

The Role:

Build effective working relationships with key customer & third party stakeholders, leading interactions within your domain
Work with customers to scope technical requirements and solution design
Own the end to end design and implementation of larger scale data science solutions, assuring development and maintenance of strong documentation, and ensuring that designs are translated into implementation
Own the full lifecycle from design and build through to deployment and continuous improvement across larger data science services
Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams alongside Engineers and UCD specialists
Act as point of technical assurance for the work of junior practitioners, and support Senior practitioners to maximise quality and pace
Support with recruitment and training activities to enable continued growth of the data science capability

You will be acting as one of the main faces of the business on larger scale Data Science services, responsible for technical design, customer stakeholder management, assurance & deployment.

What we are looking for:

Strong commercial data science experience in Agile environments
Excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to quickly build credibility and rapport with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Good Python or R skills, writing production ready code
Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
Experience deploying models into live environments
Experience working with sensitive data and understanding governance best practice
Ability to clearly communicate complex technical outputs to stakeholders
Ability to accurately translate client requirements into technical solutions, and

Desirable:

NLP experience
Experience deploying Generative AI applications, such as chatbots or RAG systems
Consultancy or professional services background would be advantageous

If you are a Lead Data Scientist who enjoys customer interaction and are looking to advance your career whilst helping deliver some of the UK’s most important tech for good projects, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Company

At SPG we are a community motivated by the belief that tech can create real change. From our technology transformation team to our software architects, we know what a switched-on employee looks like and believe in building great teams. That’s why SPG Resourcing was formed. Working closely with our clients on large transformation projects over several years has seen us build out their technology teams across a variety of sectors including Financial Services, Public Sector, Health and Property Management. Our inside knowledg... Know more