Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

FinTech

Permanent

£100,000 - £115,000 + benefits

London (hybrid)

Xcede are excited to be partnering with a major FinTech organisation who are looking for a Lead Data Scientist.

You will work across all business areas and will manage several projects simultaneously, allowing the opportunity to work across a range of tools and technologies. This is an end to end role, so you will work across all elements of the Data Science lifecycle: R&D, scoping, ML model building, feature selection, deployment and monitoring. There is also a lot of stakeholder management and business sense required for this position. It is worth noting that the team are embarking on a range of Generative AI projects, so lots of interesting cutting edge technology to be working on. You will be required to managed a team of 3-4 Data Scientist's whilst remaining hands on.

Key skills/experience required:

• A degree in STEM subject, ideally a Master's or PhD.
• 5+ years industry experience
• 2+ years' experience managing a small Data Science team
• Understanding of machine learning techniques including linear models and tree-based methods / clustering / unsupervised ML techniques
• ML model deployment and scalability experience including ML Ops
• Experience developing ML solutions to Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Excellent grasp of Python/SQL + machine learning core libraries
• Ability to convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Great scientific thinking, the ability to design effective experiments which help us learn about new problems in the most efficient way
• Good knowledge of software development best practices
• An interest in Generative AI
• Experience in the FinTech space is nice to have

For more information, please send an up-to-date CV to nathan.carolan@xcede.com

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