Are you an experienced Data Scientist ?

Do you have excellent R or Python programming skills  ?

Have you worked in Financial Services ?

I’m working with a leading Banking organisation who has built its success and reputation on providing excellent service.  You will be working in a very high profile team where the work is really interesting and challenging.

They are looking for Data Scientist of all levels of experience and they offer hybrid working.  1 day a week in the office (Edinburgh, Glasgow or Newcastle)

Responsibilities include:

• Working on Agile projects building predictive models, applying data science techniques to model customer behaviours
• Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements of commercial and credit risk problems and translate into analytical solutions
• Translate the output of complex analytical solutions to stakeholders into transparent and actionable business
• Keep abreast of Data Science innovation ensuring the techniques used are the most appropriate for the situation and the tools are best suited for the job
• Be innovative and think about solutions from a different perspective. Explore new sources of data, techniques and implementation routes.
• Feed into the Analytics Learning environment with continual development of new techniques
• Collaborate with other Data Scientists to deliver the best solutions to tackle Use Cases that will bring a step change to the business. Ensure that our models are built and used within a robust model governance framework.  

 Your experience should include:

• Strong knowledge of open source software
• Great understanding of techniques in data science and predictive modelling.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and communicate findings in simple terms.
• Excel in driving predictive analytics and data science methodology and technology
• Experience of using data science and predictive modelling to tackle business problems, preferably in banking, commercial or credit risk.
• Background in maths/stats, computer science.
• Working in a project environment with time bound deliverables

For more information contact Gary Simpson.