8 of 8 Lead Data Scientist Jobs in the South East

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 ❯

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 ❯

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 ❯

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 ❯

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 ❯

Lead Data Scientist £100000 GBP Onsite WORKING Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent Principal Consultant (PC) - Data Science - DV Cleared Location: London, Bristol, Manchester Clearance: MOD DV Principal Consultants set the vision and lead transformation. You'll define strategy, build trusted relationships with senior defence stakeholders, and lead high-performing teams … delivering mission-critical data science solutions. Key Responsibilities Shape and deliver strategic data science programmes Lead client engagements and influence policy-level decisions Build internal capability and mentor future leaders Represent the consultancy at the forefront of defence innovation Requirements Active DV clearance 6+ years in data science, with leadership experience Deep understanding of defence data and secure systems Exceptional consulting and communication skills This is a role for those who want to lead transformation, not just participate in it. Reference: AMC/BCO1ds/1 #brco More ❯

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 ❯

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 ❯