Permanent Lead Data Scientist Jobs in England

18 of 18 Permanent Lead Data Scientist Jobs in England

Lead Data Scientist

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Harnham
Lead Data Scientist London - 3 days a week Up to £125,000 About the Company We’re working with a next-generation private markets firm that is redefining value creation by combining deep industry expertise with advanced AI and data science. This is a unique opportunity to join a company that partners directly with portfolio companies … to drive measurable operational and financial performance—powered by data. They’re now hiring a Lead Data Scientist to lead high-impact analytics and machine learning projects across a wide variety of real-world domains. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll have the autonomy to shape technical approaches while staying closely tied to commercial … outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex, ambiguous business problems using data science, and wants to work at the intersection of technology, investment, and strategy. Key Responsibilities Translate complex business problems into measurable data science solutions that deliver commercial value Lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive and optimisation models across multiple More ❯
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Lead Data Scientist

London Area, United Kingdom
Harnham
Lead Data Scientist London - 3 days a week Up to £125,000 About the Company We’re working with a next-generation private markets firm that is redefining value creation by combining deep industry expertise with advanced AI and data science. This is a unique opportunity to join a company that partners directly with portfolio companies … to drive measurable operational and financial performance—powered by data. They’re now hiring a Lead Data Scientist to lead high-impact analytics and machine learning projects across a wide variety of real-world domains. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll have the autonomy to shape technical approaches while staying closely tied to commercial … outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex, ambiguous business problems using data science, and wants to work at the intersection of technology, investment, and strategy. Key Responsibilities Translate complex business problems into measurable data science solutions that deliver commercial value Lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive and optimisation models across multiple More ❯
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Lead Data Scientist

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Harnham
Lead Data Scientist London - 3 days a week Up to £125,000 About the Company We’re working with a next-generation private markets firm that is redefining value creation by combining deep industry expertise with advanced AI and data science. This is a unique opportunity to join a company that partners directly with portfolio companies … to drive measurable operational and financial performance—powered by data. They’re now hiring a Lead Data Scientist to lead high-impact analytics and machine learning projects across a wide variety of real-world domains. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll have the autonomy to shape technical approaches while staying closely tied to commercial … outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex, ambiguous business problems using data science, and wants to work at the intersection of technology, investment, and strategy. Key Responsibilities Translate complex business problems into measurable data science solutions that deliver commercial value Lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive and optimisation models across multiple More ❯
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Lead Data Scientist

slough, south east england, united kingdom
Harnham
Lead Data Scientist London - 3 days a week Up to £125,000 About the Company We’re working with a next-generation private markets firm that is redefining value creation by combining deep industry expertise with advanced AI and data science. This is a unique opportunity to join a company that partners directly with portfolio companies … to drive measurable operational and financial performance—powered by data. They’re now hiring a Lead Data Scientist to lead high-impact analytics and machine learning projects across a wide variety of real-world domains. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll have the autonomy to shape technical approaches while staying closely tied to commercial … outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex, ambiguous business problems using data science, and wants to work at the intersection of technology, investment, and strategy. Key Responsibilities Translate complex business problems into measurable data science solutions that deliver commercial value Lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive and optimisation models across multiple More ❯
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Lead Data Scientist

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Lead Data Scientist London - Hybrid £90,000 - £100,000 + Benefits About the Role We're working with a fast-growing fintech that is redefining the credit industry through fair, accessible, and innovative digital finance products. They're looking for a Lead Data Scientist to drive their AI adoption strategy, evolve modelling capabilities, and … lead a small team of data scientists. This is a chance to shape the company's AI roadmap, leading from the front and ensuring they stay ahead of the market. Key Responsibilities Lead a team of data scientists, delivering high-quality models and analysis. Own the full model lifecycle, from data sourcing to deployment and … monitoring. Explore advanced ML techniques while ensuring compliance in a regulated industry. Partner with stakeholders across Risk, Pricing, Product, and Engineering to embed data-driven decision making. Develop and oversee frameworks for model monitoring, performance tracking, and testing. Communicate complex analytics into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership. Champion best practice in coding, documentation, version control, and automation. Act More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 per annum
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Lead Data Scientist

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Lead/Principal Data Scientist London - 3 days a week Up to £135,000 About the Company We're working with a next-generation private markets firm that is redefining value creation by combining deep industry expertise with data science and machine learning. This is a unique opportunity to join a company that partners directly with … portfolio companies to drive measurable operational and financial performance. They're now hiring a Lead/Principal Data Scientist to lead machine learning projects across a wide variety of real-world domains. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you'll have the autonomy to shape technical approaches while staying closely tied to commercial outcomes. This role … is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex, ambiguous business problems using data science, and wants to work at the intersection of technology, investment, and strategy. Key Responsibilities Translate complex business problems into measurable data science solutions that deliver commercial value Lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive and optimisation models across multiple industries Own the More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £100,000 - £135,000 per annum
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Lead Data Scientist

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Tate
Lead Data Scientist * Based in Nottingham * 4 days a week onsite * Pay £75,000 depending on experience Our client is a fast-growing financial services organisation seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join their data and analytics team. This is a hands-on role focused on developing predictive models, deploying autonomous decisioning frameworks … and driving innovation across the customer lifecycle. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven solutions in fraud prevention, marketing, credit risk, and customer management. This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially experienced data scientist to take ownership of key initiatives and shape the future of data science within … a forward-thinking environment. Role and Responsibilities: * Develop and deploy predictive models to improve customer outcomes across multiple business areas. * Lead model implementation and policy setting to support autonomous decision-making. * Design and execute test-and-learn strategies to inform business decisions. * Deliver actionable insights through structured analysis and clear communication. * Identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation using More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £65000 - £75000/annum
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Lead Data Scientist

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Tate
Lead Data Scientist - Financial Services * Based in Nottingham (4 days onsite) * Pay up to £75,000 * Permanent, Full-Time Our client is a fast-growing financial services organisation looking for a Lead Data Scientist to drive innovation across the customer lifecycle. This is a hands-on, commercially focused role where you'll develop predictive … and deliver actionable insights across fraud, marketing, credit risk, and customer management. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams and have the opportunity to shape the future of data science within a dynamic, forward-thinking environment. Key Responsibilities: Own the development and deployment of predictive models to improve customer outcomes. Lead autonomous decisioning initiatives, including model implementation … Deliver insights through structured analysis and clear communication. Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement using data. Key Skills and Experience: 5+ years of experience delivering end-to-end data science solutions in a commercial setting. Proven ability to lead projects independently and drive results. Strong expertise in machine learning, predictive modelling, and AI. Proficient in Python, R More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £65000 - £75000/annum
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Lead Data Scientist - Remote

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Exposed Solutions
heavily into building the ML stack, partnered with leading universities, and trained models on millions of expert-tagged images. Now, they’re scaling globally — and need a world-class Lead Data Scientist to help push the boundaries of computer vision, video analysis, and multimodal LLMs while solving real-world challenges. Role Overview They are looking for an … experienced Lead Data Scientist to spearhead machine-learning initiatives, with particular focus on computer vision, large language models, and production ready ML pipelines in Azure. You will act as the technical lead for the team, setting direction, guiding best practices, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact AI solutions. Key Responsibilities · Develop, train, and deploy … evaluate, and productionise multi-modal LLMs for business applications. · Drive experimentation and prototyping of advanced ML/AI techniques · Provide technical direction, mentoring, and hands-on guidance to the data science team. · Work with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align ML strategy with business goals. · Architect and productionise end-to-end ML pipelines on Azure, while ensuring scalability More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 per annum
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Lead Data Scientist

Apperley Bridge, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Morrisons
More About The Role At Morrisons, our Data, Analytics & AI team plays a vital role in driving decisions across the business by unlocking the power of our data. Whether it's enabling quick insight through self-serve tools like Looker or delivering deeper analysis through exploring the patterns in our data, we help teams across the business solve … problems, drive performance, and create value. As a Lead Data Scientist, you ll lead a small but impactful team of data scientists and analysts, helping shape and deliver a roadmap of data science products and initiatives that align with our business goals. You ll work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to understand their … cutting-edge analytics to solve them. This is a hands-on role with technical delivery at its core, combined with leadership and strategic direction. What you ll be doing: Lead, mentor and develop a team of Data Scientists and Analysts, setting clear objectives and supporting professional growth Own the delivery of complex data science products and models More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Data Scientist

BD3, Apperley Bridge, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Morrisons
More About The Role At Morrisons, our Data, Analytics & AI team plays a vital role in driving decisions across the business by unlocking the power of our data. Whether it's enabling quick insight through self-serve tools like Looker or delivering deeper analysis through exploring the patterns in our data, we help teams across the business solve … problems, drive performance, and create value. As a Lead Data Scientist, you’ll lead a small but impactful team of data scientists and analysts, helping shape and deliver a roadmap of data science products and initiatives that align with our business goals. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to understand their … cutting-edge analytics to solve them. This is a hands-on role with technical delivery at its core, combined with leadership and strategic direction. What you’ll be doing: Lead, mentor and develop a team of Data Scientists and Analysts, setting clear objectives and supporting professional growth Own the delivery of complex data science products and models More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
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Lead Data Scientist

London Area, United Kingdom
Harnham
Lead Data Scientist Up to £150,000 London (Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week) Company: This private equity and investment start-up are focused on streamlining and improving performance by reimagining value creation capabilities. They are utilising cutting-edge AI to generate performance insights on each aspect of the investment lifecycle. Responsibilities: Build machine learning predictive … a fast-paced, collaborative environment. How to Apply: Please register your interest by sending your CV to Emily Burgess via the Apply link on this page. Keywords: Machine Learning, Data Science, start-up, Investment, Equity More ❯
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Lead Data Scientist

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Harnham
Lead Data Scientist Up to £125,000 London (Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week) Company: This private equity and investment start-up are focused on streamlining and improving performance by reimagining value creation capabilities. They are utilising cutting-edge AI to generate performance insights on each aspect of the investment lifecycle. Responsibilities: Build machine learning predictive … a fast-paced, collaborative environment. How to Apply: Please register your interest by sending your CV to Emily Burgess via the Apply link on this page. Keywords: Machine Learning, Data Science, start-up, Investment, Equity More ❯
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Lead Data Scientist

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Harvey Nash
Partnered with a global Legal Services orgnisation who are searching for Permanent Lead Data Scientist to play a key role within the Product Function leading the development of enterprise grade Data solutions and advanced analytics capabilities. Scope of role: Play a key role to developing firms AI strategy and roadmap. Develop and implement Data Science … and analytics use cases aligning Business priorities. Design and deploy predictive models and AI/ML prototypes Buils robustand interpretable models for forcasting, clustering and optimisation. Act as the Lead on solution design and prototyping of advanced analytics solutions. Enable good governance principles across analytics delivery. Experience required: Experienced in delivering end to end Analytics Solutions. Strong Python, SQL More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £75000/annum
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Lead Data Scientist - NLP

Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
NLP PEOPLE
Overview Role Description In this role you will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts to design and implement solutions that extract insights from unstructured text. Projects may include topic modelling and entity recognition, text generation, ontology creation, and conversational AI. This role demands strong technical expertise in NLP and a passion for innovation and problem-solving. This … enterprise-level ML/GenAI strategies aligned with business objectives. Designing and developing NLP solutions using techniques such as text classification, NER, topic modeling, and text generation. Collaborating with data engineers and MLOps teams to ensure clean data pipelines and seamless model integration. Applying LLMs (e.g., GPT, BERT, LLaMA2) and knowledge graphs to enhance natural language understanding and … reasoning. Conducting exploratory data analysis and developing robust pre-processing strategies for unstructured text. Evaluating NLP models, algorithms, and architectures to recommend optimal solutions. Communicating insights through reports, visualizations, and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences. Mentoring junior team members and staying current with advances in NLP, LLMs, and GenAI. Essential Skills A Bachelor's or Master More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead R Engineer / Data Scientist - Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Fully Remote, St James's Square, Greater London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Morris Sinclair Recruitment
Remote Role – Central London Office This is a fully remote role but you MUST be UK based and not require a visa to work. Lead R Data Science Engineer - Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Research & Solutions The Organisation Our client develops cutting-edge navigator software for the global agricultural sector, helping farmers transition toward more sustainable practices through science … findings into practical models for farmers and land managers, enabling them to understand their systems better and build more sustainable, profitable operations. Position Overview We're seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our client's Sustainability team as a lead technical specialist in our R-focused Research Software Engineering group to specialise particularly in Integrated Pest Management. … You'll create and maintain the technical infrastructure that enables our sustainability experts and data scientists to develop innovative agricultural sustainability solutions to solve global issues in Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Core Functions Lead technical best practices across R package design, code architecture, documentation, and dependency management Establish and oversee versioning and CI/CD systems to More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £70000 - £120000/annum
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Lead R Engineer / Data Scientist - Integrated Pest Management IPM

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
MORRIS SINCLAIR RECRUITMENT LTD
in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Remote Role – Central London Office This is a fully remote role but you MUST be UK based and not require a visa to work. Lead R Data Science Engineer - Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Research & Solutions The Organisation Our client develops cutting-edge navigator software for the global agricultural sector, helping farmers transition toward … findings into practical models for farmers and land managers, enabling them to understand their systems better and build more sustainable, profitable operations. Position Overview We're seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our client's Sustainability team as a lead technical specialist in our R-focused Research Software Engineering group to specialise particularly in Integrated Pest Management. … You'll create and maintain the technical infrastructure that enables our sustainability experts and data scientists to develop innovative agricultural sustainability solutions to solve global issues in Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Core Functions Lead technical best practices across R package design, code architecture, documentation, and dependency management Establish and oversee versioning and CI/CD systems to More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: £70,000 - £120,000 per annum
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Lead Data Scientist - Remote

Central London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Exposed Solutions
OurclientisbuildingthemostadvancedAIplatformintheirmarket.Theyhelptheirclientsservecustomerswithunmatchedspeedandaccuracy. TheyveinvestedheavilyintobuildingtheMLstack,partneredwithleadinguniversities,andtrainedmodelsonmillionsofexpert-taggedimages.Now,theyrescalinggloballyandneedaworld-classLeadDataScientisttohelppushtheboundariesofcomputervision,videoanalysis,andmultimodalLLMswhilesolvingreal-worldchallenges. RoleOverview TheyarelookingforanexperiencedLeadDataScientisttospearheadmachine-learninginitiatives,withparticularfocusoncomputervision,largelanguagemodels,andproductionreadyMLpipelinesinAzure.Youwillactasthetechnicalleadfortheteam,settingdirection,guidingbestpractices,andensuringthesuccessfuldeliveryofhigh-impactAIsolutions. KeyResponsibilities Develop,train,anddeploycomputervisionmodels(objectdetection,imageclassification,segmentation,multi-modallearning) Fine-tune,evaluate,andproductionisemulti-modalLLMsforbusinessapplications. DriveexperimentationandprototypingofadvancedML/AItechniques Providetechnicaldirection,mentoring,andhands More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £80,000
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Lead Data Scientist
England
10th Percentile
£76,500
25th Percentile
£81,250
Median
£85,000
75th Percentile
£85,000
90th Percentile
£89,000