Senior Data Scientist – Edinburgh or London (Hybrid)
£70,000 - £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits
AI Connect are partnering with a retail bank to help them appoint a Senior Data Scientist to join their finance function. You’ll join their modelling team within their Centre of Excellence to implement machine learning techniques to drive market leading solutions.
What you’ll do:
1. Understand the requirements and needs of your business stakeholders. You’ll develop good relationships with them, form hypotheses, and identify suitable machine learning solutions to meet their needs and to achieve business strategy.
2. Explore new and emerging trends within data science, keeping up to date with trends and tooling and sharing updates within and outside of the team.
3. Bringing together financial, statistical, mathematical, machine-learning and software engineering skills to consider multiple solutions, techniques, and algorithms.
4. Building, training, and testing complex machine models, considering model valuation, model risk, governance, and ethics throughout to implement and scale models.
5. Productionising ethically sound models end-to-end and applying a software engineering and product development lens to complex business problems
Key Skills & Experience:
1. Experience working as a Data Scientist within finance would be highly beneficial.
2. Experience deploying statistical machine learning models into a production environment.
3. Extensive work experience, including expertise with statistical data analysis, such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, and sampling methods
4. Particular experience with scenario modelling, stress testing, balance sheet forecasting, credit risk, portfolio optimisation or structured finance would be beneficial.