Senior Data Scientist
UBDS, United Kingdom

The Senior Data Scientist is a critical role supporting the growth of our Data and AI services, reporting to the Practice Director. This role will work with clients and our team to set out the machine learning best practices and take responsibility for the low-level design and development of client ML solutions, including selection and fine-tuning of foundation models and pre-trained services such as Azure Computer Services. The role will also support technical pre-sales, providing technical guidance on client AI requirements.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and development of machine learning models, including requirements and data scoping, model selection, training, evaluation, deployment and monitoring. Includes selection and fine-tuning of foundation and pre-trained models.

• Comfortable advising and selecting appropriate ML solutions against requirements, including cost implications.
• Set the machine learning best practices and standards for the Data and AI practice, including identifying opportunities for re-usable components and leading their development, maintenance and sharing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including client teams, your wider project team such as Security, Data Engineering, Cloud Architect, App Developer, Scrum Master, BA, and Partner technical representatives (Databricks, Microsoft, AWS) to ensure that ML solutions meet business requirements and are scalable, secure, and compliant with organizational policies and standards.
• Support technical pre-sales to provide guidance on client requirements for proposals, providing guidance on the technical approach and timeframes.
• Coach and support development of data scientists on the team. Potential to take on line management or continue a technical SME track without direct people management responsibilities.
• Advance our ML technology vendor partnerships in data science, including maintaining and taking relevant certifications, and identifying opportunities for further partnerships.
• Contribute to marketing events and thought leadership articles, including providing input to the strategy and direction

About You

• Design, development, and maintenance of machine learning models in a highly regulated industry. Must have experience with productionised models for business-critical functions that is consumed in downstream services, whether in infrastructure, reports, or applications

• Knowledge of all stages of the ML lifecycle, and applying MLOps principles to manage experimentation, evaluation, deployment, integration, and monitoring.
• Experienced in Databricks and Azure AI services, including Cognitive Services, AzureML, Azure OpenAI.
• Excellent Python or R expertise, including writing, testing and quality assuring ML code.
• Experienced in working with sensitive data, understands and applies security, ethics, and privacy best practices.
• Team management and leadership.
• Pre-sales responses to RFPs and client proposals.
• Consulting experience.

Benefits

Why people choose to grow their careers at UBDS

People are the most important aspect of our business, so adding the right people to the team and helping them grow is critical. This is why we’ve invested in a people-focused team to look after the entire employee experience.

With an impressive portfolio of customers in both the public and private sectors, we have a variety of exciting projects to be involved in. As a technology agnostic organisation, you’ll gain exposure to the world’s leading and latest technology.

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