Data Scientist

Data Scientist | Financial Services

York (2 days per week onsite)

Salary Up to £70,000 + 15% Bonus + Benefits

Build ML solutions that actually make it into production.

We're supporting a major financial services organisation as they build a brand-new enterprise Data Platform and MLOps capability. This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage and play a key role in shaping how Data Science is delivered across the business.

This isn't a research-only environment. You'll work on real business problems, build machine learning models that drive decision-making, and collaborate closely with engineering teams to see your work deployed and used at scale.

What you'll be doing:

• Partnering with stakeholders to turn business challenges into Data Science solutions
• Exploring, preparing and analysing large, complex datasets
• Building, testing and evaluating machine learning models
• Applying techniques such as regression, classification, clustering and forecasting
• Writing clean, maintainable Python code
• Working alongside ML Engineers to deploy models into production
• Monitoring model performance and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Helping establish best practices across Data Science, experimentation and model governance

We're looking for:

• Commercial experience as a Data Scientist
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Hands-on experience building Machine Learning models
• Expertise in feature engineering, model evaluation and model selection
• Experience working with large datasets
• Exposure to Azure, AWS or GCP
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience taking models beyond experimentation into production is highly desirable

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