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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 the high-quality delivery of complex, high-impact projects.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Setting the technical direction for complex projects and balancing trade-offs between speed, innovation, and reliability.
  • Designing and implementing reliable technical solutions and documenting architectures and specifications.
  • Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multi-disciplinary workstreams.
  • Leading technical scoping and feasibility studies for high-value sales opportunities and strategic customer engagements.
  • Managing relationships with technical stakeholders and aligning technical solutions with commercial goals.
  • Driving the adoption of best practices and robust technical processes across the Data Science craft.
  • Mentoring and developing other data scientists and team members.

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

  • Proven project management expertise and ability to divide complex problems into actionable workstreams.
  • Strong customer leadership skills and ability to act as a trusted technical advisor.
  • Depth of expertise in at least one machine learning domain and strong technical breadth across the data science landscape.
  • Skilled technical leadership and ability to mentor individuals and manage teams.
  • Experience extending technical oversight to business unit-level initiatives and influencing organisational success.

Faculty is committed to diversity and inclusion, and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.

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