Pontoon Solutions
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Job Advertisement: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Welwyn Garden City
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Contract Length: 12 months (6+6)
Daily Rate: £550 - £800 per day Inside IR35
Working Pattern: Hybrid
About the Role
Are you ready to take your data science career to the next level? Our client is looking for a passionate and hands-on Senior Data Scientist to join their Journey Insights team! In this exciting role, you'll work with both structured and unstructured data, unlocking insights that enhance customer journeys and operational opportunities.
What You'll Do
- Own the Delivery: Lead end-to-end data science solutions from problem framing to deployment, ensuring your work delivers tangible results.
- Deep-Dive Analysis: Use hypothesis-driven approaches to uncover customer journey opportunities and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Innovative Solutions: Combine structured datasets with unstructured sources (like text and customer interaction data) to create robust features and predictive models.
- NLP & GenAI Expertise: Apply traditional NLP techniques and cutting-edge GenAI tools for text classification, summarization, entity extraction, and more.
- Data Pipelines: Build, validate, and optimise data pipelines and model code, ensuring performance and security.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to define success metrics and turn complex outputs into clear, decision-ready insights.
- Mentorship: Share best practices and support your team through constructive code and model reviews.
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Skills and Experience Required
- Proven expertise in delivering end-to-end data science solutions that yield practical outcomes.
- Experience in combining structured and unstructured datasets for modelling and analysis.
- Strong background in NLP and GenAI techniques, including text classification, summarization, and embeddings.
- Advanced proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark, with a focus on software development best practices.
- Experience deploying data science models in a cloud environment (Azure preferred).
- Familiarity with database management (including graph databases) and integrating diverse data sources.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, non-technical manner.
Desirable Experience
- Knowledge of PyTorch, MLflow, DBT, and Databricks AI functions is a plus!
About Us
Join a dynamic organisation that values human connection and places customers at the heart of everything they do. Embrace the Agile way of working, where collaboration, innovation, and adaptation are key to meeting customer needs.


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- Be part of a community that celebrates diversity and inclusivity.
- Enjoy a blend of remote and office working, fostering creativity and collaboration.
- Access a range of full-time and part-time working patterns to fit your lifestyle.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you're excited about leveraging data to drive meaningful insights and improve customer experiences, we want to hear from you! Apply now to join a vibrant team that thrives on innovation and collaboration.
Together, let's create solutions that make a difference!
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
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