Data Scientist
Tittle: Data Scientist/Data Engineer
Rate: £450-£550 Outside IR35
Contract duration: 3 months (Initially)
Start date: January start date!
I'm working with a cutting-edge tech business building a next-generation data platform, and they're looking for a Data Scientist/Data Engineer to join at a critical early stage. This is a hands-on role working closely with the CTO, owning the design and delivery of end-to-end data pipelines and advanced AI-driven capabilities.
You'll be responsible for ingesting and transforming unstructured data, building scalable pipelines, and embedding machine learning, NLP, and semantic search into a modular, cloud-native architecture.
Key skills required:
- Strong Python for data processing, pipelines, and ML integration
- Experience building end-to-end data pipelines (ETL/ELT, orchestration)
- Solid knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases (data lakes, metadata, graph models)
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with distributed data processing (Spark/Flink)
- Foundations in machine learning/NLP (embeddings, summarisation, vector search)
- Containerised environments using Docker & Kubernetes
- Strong focus on data quality, security & Scalability
This is a high-impact role where you'll shape core architecture, influence technical direction, and work on genuinely complex data and AI challenges from day one.
Our client has a 1 stage interview process and will interview this week for the right candidate!
If you're interested in this role, or know someone who would be, then please contact me with your updated CV.