Interim Data Scientist - Remote Working

What's involved with this role:
Interim Data Scientist - Remote Working - PSR 1JP00040749 Pay Rate: Up to £400 per day pay range subject to IR35 status Key Accountabilities:

• Provide analysis and assessment
• Provide all stakeholders with required analysis
• Compile evidence, including area and population context, influencers, early signals
• Create live dashboards to present data and analysis
• Engage with partners in wider organisation, academia and the private sector to gain access to new data sources and information

Key Requirements:

• Experience leading and delivering Data Science analyses and projects
• Ability to mentor data scientists in best practice
• Ability to work at pace to deadlines across multiple projects
• Ability to effectively communicate the results of analysis to senior stakeholders and decision makers
• Strong understanding and experience in applying statistics and data science techniques to real world problems
• Strong experience with Python, SQL, Spark, AWS and/or R for Data Science including the core scientific Python stack (pandas, numpy, matplotlib etc) and/or R stack (ggplot2, tidyverse etc)
• Experience cleaning data for machine learning projects
• Ability to write functions and understandable object orientated code
• Understanding of software best practice, including confident use of version control using platforms such as Github
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve numerical and technical problems
• High attention to detail
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills evidenced through verbal and written means to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience with publishing data sets for visualisation and analysis
• Experience with supporting design of data models / data flows
• Experienced working in Agile teams

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