Job Description
Lead Data Scientist
£600/day (Inside IR35)
6 Months contract
Flexible UK working with occasional onsite presence in London, Birmingham or Basingstoke
I'm currently supporting a client looking for a hands-on Lead Data Scientist to take ownership of an established data science capability operating within a live customer-facing product.
This is not a greenfield build. The priority is ensuring continuity, stability and value delivery from existing production machine learning models while providing technical leadership to a small team.
You'll be responsible for:
• Owning and maintaining production ML models
• Providing technical oversight and quality assurance
• Supporting and mentoring two junior Data Scientists
• Defining model monitoring, alerting and retraining processes
• Translating technical outputs into business value for stakeholders
• Working closely with product, engineeri...