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Lead Data Scientist

Solihull
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Role Overview

This role exists to provide technical leadership and assurance across data science, ensuring machine learning solutions are designed, built, and operated to a high and consistent technical standard. The role focuses on enabling scalable, reliable delivery of data science solutions aligned to business priorities defined elsewhere.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Acting as a technical lead for data science, guiding modelling approach and solution design across multiple initiatives.
  • Working closely with business stakeholders to translate priority use cases into technically sound, production-ready data science solutions.
  • Providing hands-on technical leadership across the data science lifecycle, from problem framing and modelling through deployment and ongoing optimisation.
  • Defining and embedding technical standards and best practices for experimentation, validation, documentation, and reproducibility.
  • Reviewing and challenging technical designs and implementations, providing clear technical direction and sign-off.
  • Supporting and mentoring data scientists on complex technical challenges.
  • Partnering with Data Architecture, ML & Data Engineering, and BI teams to ensure solutions are scalable, robust, and production-ready.
  • Evaluating new techniques and tools, guiding their pragmatic adoption.
  • Communicating technical assumptions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Accountable for:
    • The technical quality and consistency of data science solutions delivered within assigned domains.
    • Ensuring solutions meet agreed performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability standards.
    • Consistent application of data science standards, reducing delivery risk and technical debt.
    • Providing ongoing technical assurance that solutions remain fit for production as usage and complexity increase.
    • Maintaining strong technical partnerships with stakeholders as a trusted advisor.
    • Raising the overall technical maturity of data science within the organisation.

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What You'll Need

Essential Criteria:

  • Extensive experience delivering production-grade, commercially impactful data science solutions, gained in a data science or machine learning role.
  • Proven experience operating as a senior technical lead, reviewer, or technical sign-off authority.
  • Strong experience building ML solutions on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
  • Advanced expertise in Python and SQL.
  • Deep applied knowledge of machine learning techniques, including regression, classification, clustering, and time-series forecasting.
  • Experience supporting production deployment and lifecycle management of ML models.
  • Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modelling, and modern data architecture.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

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Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with recommender systems or personalisation use cases.
  • Familiarity with MLOps concepts and production ML practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to raise technical standards through influence rather than authority.
  • Experience in an e-commerce or retail environment.

Closing Date

14th August

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Skills

Python
SQL
Machine Learning
Data Science
Cloud Platforms
GCP
AWS
Azure
Data Architecture
Data Warehousing
MLOps
Regression
Classification
Clustering
Time-series Forecasting
Technical Leadership

Location

Solihull, England, United Kingdom

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