BBC Senior Data Scientist

1 week ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom BBC Full time
About the BBC

The BBC is a leading media organisation with over 20 years of experience serving audiences online. We entertain, educate and inform millions of people every day through our key products, including BBC iPlayer, News, Sport, Weather and Sounds.

As a fundamental part of our journey, we use data science to enrich our content, improve journalist workflows and power personalised experiences for our audience.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Content Discovery (Search) team as a 10-month fixed-term contract parental leave cover position. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to this team across several exciting projects, including developing end-to-end data science products improving the relevance of our search engine results.

You will be a senior contributor in a cross-functional team to build machine learning products to improve the quality of search experience across the BBC and to create a data-driven culture within the team.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Develop data science products at scale to deliver value to BBC audiences.
  2. Work hands-on to deliver technical expertise to the Content Discovery (Search) team.
  3. Build machine learning products to improve the quality of search experience across the BBC.
  4. Create a data-driven culture within the team.
Requirements
  • Extensive hands-on experience in data science and machine learning.
  • Strong coding skills in Python.
  • Proven track record contributing to technical machine learning projects.
  • Cloud services, ideally AWS.
  • MLOps, e.g. model deployment, versioning and monitoring.
  • Experience working on ML projects from inception to delivery, working with engineers to put models into production.
  • Knowledge and understanding of best practices such as testing, code management and deployment.
About You

We welcome applications from individuals who are passionate about data science and want to contribute to the development of innovative solutions to improve the search experience across the BBC.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months.

Salary

£65,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.

About Us

Diversity matters at the BBC. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.



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