Data Scientist
Sittingbourne
£40-80k
VR/02638RS

Our client is looking to recruit a self-motivated, highly logical and intellectually curious Data Scientist to join their expanding Data Analytics Team in the UK. As a growing business area, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to help shape the technical and business landscape, whilst delivering a variety of challenging projects.

Your primary focus as a Data Scientist will be the mining of data and data analysis in order to unlock complex datasets. You will be able to develop predictive models and demonstrate the math and statistics behind them in order to interpret and explain the model behaviour to both business and technical stakeholders. In addition, you will be experienced in the agile design and implementation of test models which ensure that exacting quality specification are met.

To apply you must:

· Have 4+ years of experience in a Data Science or equivalent role
Be passionate about applying A.I. techniques like NLP and machine learning
Have programming experience with at least one scripting language such as Python, R, Julia, MATLAB or SQL. As well as demonstrable experience with scikit-learn, pandas, Studio, Shiny and Spark
Have demonstrable experience and knowledge of cloud-based platforms, such as Azure and AWS
· Have strong data visualisation skills to communicate the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner
· Be educated to graduate level or a professional equivalent. Ideally PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Econometrics or equivalent
· A willingness to learn and work with new technologies