Senior Data Scientist – Generative AI

Company: Burns Sheehan
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Location: London
Job Description:

Senior Data Scientist – Gen AI

Fintech – 2 days a week London – Up to £110K+ Bonus

The Role

We’re partnering with a leading UK fintech to find a Senior Data Scientist with hands‑on GenAI experience. This role focuses on building production‑grade agentic systems that impact the business.

Responsibilities include:

  • Designing and implementing core logic for GenAI agents, including tool definitions that allow LLMs to interact with internal systems
  • Building systematic evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, reliability, and tool‑use performance
  • Developing predictive ML models and analysing business data for opportunities
  • Rapidly prototyping applications to validate technical feasibility with stakeholders
  • Optimising prompts, reasoning chains, and agentic patterns for production use
  • Implementing responsible AI guardrails and adversarial testing

Requirements

  • Hands‑on experience building LLM‑powered applications – tool use, RAG, agentic frameworks
  • Strong, production‑quality Python (clean, tested, Git‑based workflow)
  • Experience evaluating non‑deterministic and ML models systematically
  • Solid SQL and data manipulation skills
  • Ability to translate non‑technical business problems into effective technical solutions

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.

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Posted: May 23rd, 2026