4 x Senior Data Scientists

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Job description

4 x new contract jobs for Data Scientists with Python expertise needed for major telecommunication client.

We're looking for Senior or Principal Data Scientists. The most important thing is people who can model prototyping & can write code. We work in Python here, so we don't want people who have only worked in R. We work primarily in two areas, one is Personalisation and Pricing, and the other is Network Efficiency (making sure our network is running well). We have a data lake and all the data starts in SQL. We work primarily on the GCP stack, however, experience in any azure\/aws\/gcp valuable.

Our client is one of the UK's leading names in the telecommunications sector with sites based around the UK. This role will allow you to work from home (in the UK) with a proviso that some on site visits may be required during the course of your contract.

What you will be doing
This role is a hands-on role working across multiple programs of working including personalisation, operations and network data science capabilities. You'll be building ML models and writing code in real time services powering digital products (website and apps), our marketing capabilities, network efficiency and ensuring our operations are running optimally. A normal week might look like writing prediction models, digging into data to look for opportunities, implementing code for production services, doing code reviews for junior members, working with an established data engineering \/ ML Ops team to determine platform choices for data scientists to be most efficient and effective. You'll work with stakeholders to determine how data science can optimize their processes, and then work with the wider team to bring those solutions to fruition. Experience in cloud technologies in some manner is expected, as you'll be expected to give guidance to more junior members of the team on optimal methods for interacting with these. You'll feed requirements and suggestions into the current state of technologies and help to choose new ones as well, but primarily we build in house.

What they are looking for
Apply for this job if you are a data scientist or ML engineer working on production ML backed services and looking to take the next step in your career, or a senior who is looking to broaden your experience and further develop your technical skills. You'll join a great team of product managers, software and ML engineers, data analysts and analyst engineers and data scientists! We aren't hiring ML Ops, only Data Science \/ ML Engineering - we want the people who write the code, who do the modelling. There are other people in our team who keep the platform up and move data around.

Experience applying knowledge in statistics and machine learning to real world commercial problems. Experience bringing live services using machine learning and python to production. Expert knowledge of Python and relevant libraries (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, Scikit-learn, tensorflow, etc\u2026) knowledge in other programming languages is valuable, but this is primarily a Python shop. Experience with things like CI\/CD pipelines, Docker or similar, cloud hosting, good software engineering practices - we have an ML Ops team but as a principal you need to be familiar with why these things are good and how to use\/do them. Experience working in an agile software development environment. Strong mathematics or statistics background gained through MSc\/PhD education in scientific field \/ computer science. Ability to translate consumer business problems into data science use cases and requirements

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available. The roles have been determined as Inside IR35 and are offered on a 6 month initial contract with scope for extension. The day rate will be a maximum of \u00A3625 per day via an approved Umbrella company.

If this sounds like you then click apply now!

I am a Senior Business Manager for Hays Technology, specialising in Project Management\/Change Management for the Surrey and North Hampshire area, helping tech professionals develop their careers and ensuring organisations are supported by the top talent. My passion for this space stems from many years of placing Project and Change professionals - finding out what they are passionate about and then guiding them to the right opportunities.

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