Pricing & Revenue Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist - Optimisation (Contract)

Outside IR35 | £400-450 per day | 3-month initial term | Hybrid London (2-3 days on-site)

The brief

A global marketing-data organisation is upgrading the engine that matches millions of survey invitations to the right respondents. Your task: treat the matching pipeline as a full-scale optimisation problem and raise both accuracy and yield.

Core responsibilities
  • Model optimisation - refactor and improve existing matching/segmentation models; design objective functions that balance cost, speed and data quality.

  • Experimentation - set up offline metrics and online A/B tests; analyse uplift and iterate quickly.

  • Production delivery - build scalable pipelines in AWS SageMaker (moving to Azure ML); containerise code and hook into CI/CD.

  • Monitoring & tuning - track drift, response quality and spend; implement automated retraining triggers.

  • Collaboration - work with Data Engineering, Product and Ops teams to translate business constraints into mathematical formulations.

A typical day
  1. Morning stand-up: align on performance targets and new constraints.

  2. Data dive: explore panel behaviour in Python/SQL, craft new features.

  3. Modelling sprint: run hyper-parameter sweeps or explore heuristic/greedy and MIP/SAT approaches.

  4. Deployment: ship a model as a container, update an Airflow (or Azure Data Factory) job.

  5. Review: inspect dashboards, compare control vs. treatment, plan next experiment.

Tech stack

Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow)SQL (Redshift, Snowflake or similar)AWS SageMaker Azure ML migration, with Docker, Git, Terraform, Airflow / ADFOptional extras: Spark, Databricks, Kubernetes.

What you'll bring
  • 3-5+ years building optimisation or recommendation systems at scale.

  • Strong grasp of mathematical optimisation (e.g., linear/integer programming, meta-heuristics) as well as ML.

  • Hands-on cloud ML experience (AWS or Azure).

  • Proven track record turning prototypes into reliable production services.

  • Clear communication and documentation habits.

Company
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Salary
£400 - £500 per day
Posted
Company
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Salary
£400 - £500 per day
Posted