Senior Data Scientist
2016-03-24 10:16:45
2016-04-05 00:00:00
- London, London
- £75-90k
- 5th Apr ’16
- Closed
This company is one of the UK's leading online service providers.
The role will be reporting into the Head of Solutions with whom you will help develop a Data Science team who can add significant value within their wider, and well-established data function.
Working closely with Product Engineering teams, you will develop algorithmic solutions, analyse and interpret the results of new product development experiments, utilise advanced statistical techniques to generate actionable insights to improve decision making.
This is a very hands-on role despite the seniority, though you will also be expected to have the strategic experience and leadership qualities to drive the proposition forwards.
The team are tool agnostic but overall generally use a combination of R and Python with Hadoop and Spark.
The successful candidate is likely to have:
- Roughly 3-5 years of prior experience working within a Data Scientist role
- A strong understanding of R or Python
- A passion for problem solving
- Machine learning techniques
- Proven leadership ability
- Strategic mind-set