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Principal Data Scientist, Newcastle upon Tyne
Client: BBC
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 08f917f8b40d
Job Views: 4
Posted: 11.03.2025
Expiry Date: 25.04.2025
Job Description:
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Job Reference: 21742
Candidates should take the time to read all the elements of this job advert carefully Please make your application promptly.
Band: D
Salary: £69,000 - £79,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford, Glasgow, Newcastle, London. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.
Excellent career progression: the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities: our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits: We offer a negotiable 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.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, please contact us.
Job Introduction
The BBC has been serving audiences online for more than 20 years. Across key products including BBC iPlayer, News, Sport, Weather and Sounds, we entertain, educate and inform audiences in their millions every day.
But behind the scenes we have work to do. We are making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to our audiences to becoming a service that is directly shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs. We are creating personalised content, products and services that bring the right content, to the right people, at the right time: a personalised BBC.
At the BBC we see data science as fundamental on that journey. We use data and machine learning to enrich our content, improve journalist workflows and power personalised experiences for millions of audience members.
To help drive this effort, we’re looking for a Principal Data Scientist to join the Content Discovery (Recommendations) team. The successful candidate will be a technical leader in a cross-functional team of data scientists, engineers, product managers, editorial, and UX designers, to have real impact on millions of audience members.
Interview Process
There is a 2-stage process:
• Hiring manager introductory call covering role background and candidate motivations for applying.
• 1.5 hour panel interview including a technical presentation from the candidate and role relevant competency based questions.
Main Responsibilities
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will work hands-on to deliver value to BBC audiences by developing data science products at scale. We are looking for ‘T-shaped’ individuals, combining a breadth of knowledge with deep specialism in one or two areas. You will do hands-on coding work to develop, deploy and iterate on recommender systems, lead architecture design, implement ideas from recent research papers, do code reviews and set best practices.
The successful candidate will also have strong interpersonal skills to lead projects involving several different teams, such as the data science & engineering, AI research, ML platform and user-facing application teams, and to effectively engage with editorial stakeholders.
Principal Data Scientists at the BBC are expected to have an impact both within their immediate team and across the wider BBC data science/AI community, shaping technical direction, culture and ways of working.
Are you the right candidate?
Key criteria:
• Extensive hands-on experience in data science and machine learning.
• Strong coding skills in Python.
• Experience developing and deploying recommender systems.
• Proven track record contributing to technical machine learning projects.
• Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team.
Desirable experience:
• Experience with model lifecycle management and MLOps, including model deployment, versioning and monitoring.
• Good knowledge of cloud services, ideally AWS.
• Knowledge and understanding of best practices such as testing, code management and deployment.
• Mentorship of other team members.
You are encouraged to apply even if you don’t meet every one of the criteria above!
We value diversity and are committed to be truly inclusive and a place where everyone belongs.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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