# Senior Data Scientist

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

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_30c32023-09a

## Description

At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will take ownership of investigations and solutions that span search, supply and commerce, working with detailed datasets and linking data sources to support projects across pillars.

**Responsibilities:**

- Work across search, supply and commerce, bringing together diverse datasets to tackle complex problems and deliver projects that span multiple pillars.

- Identify opportunities for our customers and our business, using data to shape solutions and building tools and approaches that make the wider team more effective.

- Develop a deep understanding of the customer experience, getting to the root causes of recurring problems and working cross-functionally to turn insights into lasting improvements.

- Drive continuous improvement by identifying recurring patterns and turning what you learn into reusable tools, frameworks and solutions that reduce investigation time and help the wider team move faster.

- Surface product and commercial opportunities through your analysis, connecting insights to business context and bringing opportunities to the right teams timely to drive action.

- Mentor and guide colleagues across Data and partner teams, helping others build their analytical capability and confidence.

- Partner closely with data scientists, data analysts and cross-functional teams across search, supply, commerce to solve problems that cut across organisational boundaries.

- Navigate competing priorities across multiple areas of the business, bringing structure, clarity and sound judgement to fast-moving and ambiguous situations.

**Requirements:**

- Substantial experience as a Data Scientist at a senior level, with the confidence, judgement and autonomy that come from having operated at this level before.

- Track record of owning a business or functional area end to end, taking responsibility for identifying opportunities, shaping the analytical approach and driving outcomes.

- Experience working across multiple business areas or domains, navigating competing priorities and adapting your approach to different problems, stakeholders and contexts.

- A strong track record of delivering measurable business impact through product analytics, translating data and insights into decisions and actions that improve customer and business outcomes.

- Strong SQL and Python skills, used confidently to explore, analyse and draw actionable insights from complex datasets.

- Confidence working with large, unfamiliar and diverse datasets, bringing together multiple data sources to build a robust and comprehensive understanding of a problem.

- Experience mentoring and supporting other Data Scientists, helping colleagues develop their technical skills, analytical thinking and approach to problem-solving.

**Benefits:**

- Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

- Prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- data analysis
- problem-solving
- communication

### Nice to have
- experience in a technology-driven, digital or marketplace business

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