ECS Resource Group
Principal Data Scientist / Principal ML Consultant
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Principal Data Scientist / ML Consultant (Contract)
Duration: 6 Months
Engagement: Full-Time Contract
Working Model: Hybrid (UK-based)
Location: Client site attendance as required
Start Date: ASAP
Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Principal Data Scientist / ML Consultant to lead the delivery of an existing machine learning programme through to a production-grade AWS deployment. This role requires someone who can provide technical leadership, mentor internal teams, and actively build, deploy, and operationalise machine learning solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop predictive models to support commercial decision-making.
- Utilise AutoML tools (e.g. AutoGluon, H2O AutoML, PyCaret) to accelerate model development.
- Assess, prepare, and engineer data for modelling.
- Deploy and operationalise ML solutions within AWS.
- Implement MLOps practices including monitoring, retraining, and model governance.
- Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer to internal teams.
- Manage stakeholder communication, providing clear recommendations and updates.
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Essential Skills
- Strong hands-on Python and machine learning experience.
- Proven track record delivering ML solutions into production.
- Experience with AutoML frameworks.
- Strong understanding of regression, forecasting, and predictive analytics.
- Data engineering and pipeline development capability.
- AWS ML deployment experience (e.g. SageMaker, ECS, Lambda).
- Practical MLOps experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and consulting skills.
- Experience mentoring data science teams.
- AWS-native ML tooling and cloud architecture experience.
- Experience delivering data-driven commercial or optimisation solutions.
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Deliverables
- Production-grade ML solution deployed in AWS.
- Established deployment, monitoring, and retraining processes.
- Knowledge transfer and upskilling of the internal team.
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