About the role
As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll take on a pivotal, entrepreneurial role, functioning as the technical expert who thrives on complexity and commercial impact. You will be responsible for setting the technical direction and ensuring the high-quality, scalable delivery of our most challenging, high-impact projects.
What you’ll be doing
- Setting the technical direction for complex, business‑critical projects and expertly balancing trade‑offs between speed, innovation, and reliability.
- Designing and implementing reliable, production‑grade technical solutions, ensuring comprehensive documentation of architectures and specifications.
- Defining project problems, developing clear roadmaps, and overseeing end‑to‑end delivery across multi‑disciplinary workstreams.
- Leading technical scoping and feasibility studies for high‑value sales opportunities and strategic customer engagements.
- Managing relationships and communications with demanding clients, fostering trust and aligning technical solutions with shared long‑term commercial goals.
- Driving the adoption of best practices, shared resources, and robust technical processes across the wider Data Science craft.
- Mentoring and developing other data scientists and team members, actively contributing to the growth and technical excellence of the organisation.
Who we’re looking for
- You bring depth of expertise in at least one machine learning domain and strong technical breadth across the entire data science landscape.
- You are a skilled technical leader, proficient in mentoring individuals, managing teams (including other managers), and rolling out impactful tools and workflows.
- You have proven project management expertise, capable of dividing complex, ill‑defined problems into actionable, clearly defined workstreams with timelines you can defend.
- You are adept at managing ill‑defined, high‑risk tasks, consistently delivering innovative and practical outcomes under commercial pressure.
- You possess strong customer leadership skills, able to act as a trusted technical advisor and drive long‑term strategic relationships with demanding clients.
- You excel at cross‑functional collaboration, effectively aligning technical strategy with Engineering, Commercial (BD), and Infrastructure teams.
- You have experience extending technical oversight to business unit‑level initiatives, using your vision to influence and contribute to organisational success.
Benefits
- Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
- Private healthcare and dental
- Enhanced parental leave
- Family‑Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
- Sanctus Coaching
- Hybrid Working
The Interview Process
- Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
- Introduction to the team (30 minutes)
- Take Home Technical Assessment
- Technical Interview (90 minutes)
- Commercial Interview (60 minutes)
Equal Opportunity Employer
We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations. We are open to conversations about part‑time hours.
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