# Senior Data Scientist

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

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## Description

Disney+ is The Walt Disney Company's Direct to Consumer video entertainment service, offering long-form and short-form video content across multiple platforms. The Disney+ team is responsible for the day-to-day operation of Disney+ across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Disney+ Analytics & Insights EMEA team. The purpose of this role is to work collaboratively alongside functional EMEA Analytics teams and wider business leads to deliver robust data science projects and models. The role will focus on forecasting customer trends and engagement, as well as ad hoc modelling to gain additional insight from customer data.

**Responsibilities**

- Drive the development, design and implementation of the engagement forecast model

- Manage and solve ad hoc modelling requests from stakeholders

- Develop and maintain semantic models and extend them into agentic AI solutions

- Consult with stakeholders at all levels across Disney+ to aid in the delivery of data science driven projects

- Support insight analysts across EMEA Analytics team, ensuring statistically robust results are delivered and best practices are followed

- Build strong relationships across the Global and International Analytics and Data Science teams to collaborate where required

- Develop understanding of existing Global data science tools available and potential opportunities to apply them in EMEA

**Requirements**

- Proficient in writing SQL

- Significant experience in Python, R or other statistical programming language

- Familiarity with building and evaluating agentic AI solutions preferred

- Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with 4+ years of experience in data science-related roles

- Demonstrable understanding and practical application of data science concepts with particular focus on experimentation design, time-series forecasting and causal impact methodologies

- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities effectively, delivering high-quality outputs with strong attention to detail

- Flexibility in approach, taking creative approaches to getting results where necessary

- Strong communication skills with experience talking to both technical and non-technical audiences about data science concepts, best practice and limitations

**Benefits**

- 25 days annual leave

- Private medical insurance & dental care

- Free Park Entry

- Disney Discounts

- Excellent parental and guardian leave

- Employee Resource Groups

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- R
- statistical programming
- data science
- experimentation design
- time-series forecasting
- causal impact methodologies

### Nice to have
- agentic AI solutions
- consumer behavioural data

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