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Lead Data Scientist

Faculty London Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

As a Lead Data Scientist at Faculty, you'll play a pivotal role in setting the technical direction and ensuring high-quality delivery of complex projects.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Setting technical direction for business-critical projects, balancing speed, innovation, and reliability
  • Designing and implementing reliable technical solutions, documenting architectures and specifications
  • Defining project roadmaps, overseeing end-to-end delivery, and managing technical risk
  • Leading technical scoping and feasibility studies for high-value sales opportunities
  • Managing relationships with technical stakeholders, aligning solutions with commercial goals
  • Driving best practices, shared resources, and robust technical processes across the Data Science team
  • Mentoring and developing other data scientists and team members

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • Proven project management expertise, dividing complex problems into actionable workstreams
  • Strong customer leadership skills, acting as a trusted technical advisor
  • Depth of expertise in at least one machine learning domain and broad technical knowledge across data science
  • Skilled technical leadership, mentoring individuals, managing teams, and rolling out impactful tools and workflows
  • Experience managing high-risk tasks, delivering innovative outcomes under commercial pressure
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration, aligning technical strategy with Engineering, Commercial, and Infrastructure teams

Faculty is committed to diversity and inclusion, encouraging applications from all backgrounds.

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