# Lead Data Scientist

**Company**: Faculty
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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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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## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- project management
- customer leadership
- technical leadership
- data science

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