Senior Data Scientist

Job profile for Senior Data Scientist

Brighton with Hybrid working

29/10/2025

Senior Data Scientist

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Salary

Salary between £55,504 and £70,922 per annum dependent on skills and experience

Contractual hours

35

Basis

Full time

Package

A Market Premia of 10% of salary will offered on top of salary. Excellent benefits and pension scheme.

Job category/type

Digital / Data / Technology

Date posted

15/10/2025

Job reference

REQ000213

Job description

Role title: Senior Data Scientist (Lead Specialist)

TPR grade & pay group: 7 - Digital

Directorate: Data, Digital and Technology (DDaT)

Starting salary: Salary between £55,504 and £70,922 per annum dependent on skills and experience. A Market Premia of 10% of salary will offered in addition.

Contract type: 12-month fixed term

Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

Closing date: 29th October 2025

The role and responsibilities

This is an exciting and varied role that sits within the Data Science team. You will combine your advanced analytical capability with software skills to drive and develop business operations and help drive TPR's data strategy.

The successful candidate will contribute to implementing data science at TPR, raising standards and continuously seek opportunities to innovate and improve how the business adopts data products, in line with developments in data science and machine learning. You will need to be confident working closely with senior technical and non-technical leaders and be able to act as a visible leader for the Data Science Team with an emphasis on collaboration and inclusivity, role modelling the teams' values and sharing knowledge and skills to build wider team capability.

This role will have a particular focus on supporting the build of the Pensions Dashboard – a priority cross-Government programme of work to ensure that pension schemes connect to the Pensions Dashboard on time to support millions of savers in planning for retirement. This will require good working knowledge of R and Power BI.

As an in-house consultancy, the Data Science Team work right across TPR, and you will have the opportunity to develop your technical skills on a variety of workstreams and engage with senior leaders to help make informed decisions that affect the Pensions Marketplace.

The role criteria

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of:

• providing effective consultancy support by designing and delivering data-development projects, building and embedding new approaches across the business
• delivering advanced analytical products to internal and external stakeholders.
• Developing and delivering Machine Learning (ML); Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Programming (NLP) products – either directly or supervising Junior / Apprentice / Intern Data Scientists.
• Building sustainable products in Bower BI and R, and the use of git for version control.
• Communicating findings with key stakeholders throughout the business and in external fora.
• Developing Junior, Apprentice and Intern Data Scientists through specifying and overseeing discrete work packages, aligned with the current stage in their development plan.

The team

Our Data, Digital and Technology vision is to be a catalyst for pensions innovation and regulatory effectiveness. We're using digital, data, and technology to revolutionise pension regulation, making it more efficient, secure, transparent, and customer centred.

Our data team has accountability for the data estate and is responsible for the organisation's approach to data. We're data-enabled, not data-driven: we work with engineers, product managers, and other disciplines to understand how data can best support the needs of the organisation and ultimately savers.

You will be joining a Data Science team that sits at the heart of delivering for The Pensions Regulator. We work on a variety of workstreams, and the team work with R, python, SQL, PBI and develop on a bespoke we have an enterprise-scale Azure data platform that allows us access to secure Machine Learning models.

Reward and benefits

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Our culture

TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government's workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.

We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.

About The Pensions Regulator

With a career at TPR, you'll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We're committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.

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Applications

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.

Selection and interview

If you are shortlisted for interview, we'll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the criteria outlined in the 'what you will bring' section will be offered an interview.

Diversity and inclusion

TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.

Further information

Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees,

If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email

Senior Data Scientist