Lead Data Scientist

2 months ago


Charing Cross, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

About The Role
Team – Data Science
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. 
We are happy to discuss flexible working
Top 3 skills needed for this role:

End-to-end delivery of high-impact machine learning projects.
Identification of new project opportunities.
Strong technical skill set likely including:
Extensive experience developing and deploying traditional ML models.
Development of LLM based applications.
Software engineering experience.What this role is all about:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you’ll be responsible for taking a lead role in the identification, development and deployment of key projects within the team.  You’ll be a technical lead on the projects you are responsible for and take responsibility for driving those projects to delivery.  You’ll coordinate the work of the data scientists working on the projects you are responsible for as well as exert influence within the cross-functional project teams tasked with deployment of our finished applications. 
Key Actions

Implementing the machine learning life cycle: Building models in a structured manner following best practice in the collection and analysis of modelling data, feature engineering, model fitting, selection, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. In addition to delivery of traditional ML models you will have a strong working knowledge of applied GenAI techniques.
Delivering high impact projects: Leading projects with well-defined business benefits.

Leading projects to delivery.
Leveraging your experience of working on previous projects to deliver new projects quickly and working with commitment and urgency to achieve this.
Managing several competing projects concurrently, prioritising your time effectively so as not to compromise delivery.
Engaging stakeholders: Working with stakeholders to understand their core needs and requirements to facilitate the identification and delivery of high impact projects.
Building and transferring skills and knowledge: Taking responsibility for developing personal skills and expertise aligned to your role.
Applying risk management and governance: Considering potential risks at every stage of a project.

Championing model governance and data protection.
Collaborating within and across teams: Working effectively together with others across varying areas of expertise to achieve the required results.What do you need to thrive?

Undergraduate degree in numerical subject.
Significant experience accessing and analysing data using SQL and Python.
Significant experience using commonly used regression and classification algorithms.
Experience developing and deploying GenAI applications.
Experience working with IT delivery teams to deploy models into production.
Experience (5+ yrs) working as a data scientist.
Expert in the process of building and implementing machine learning models to solve business problems.
Ability to prioritise work in relation to likely business impact.
Communicates effectively to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organisation.
Demonstrable experience of working with the business to identify new projects.
So, what’s in it for you?

Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
Life Assurance – Four times annual salaryThese are just some of the many perks that we offer To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
Be there for you when you need us.
Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About The Company
We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024
Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
 
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. 
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early



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