Description:
Role: Data Scientist
Location: Nottingham, UK (80% Remote)
Salary: £60k
The Opportunity
A growing, data-driven organisation is looking for a Data Scientist to help unlock the value of its data. This is a hands-on role where you'll work on a mix of analytics and machine learning projects, partnering with different teams to turn complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.
You'll have the freedom to own problems end-to-end, from exploration through to deployment, while contributing to a modern, evolving data function.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and building data science solutions using Python
- Exploring datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and opportunities
- Applying statistical methods and machine learning techniques to solve business challenges
- Using clustering and segmentation to enhance analysis where relevant
- Translating technical outputs into clear insights for a range of stakeholders
- Supporting the deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement of models
- Contributing to best practices, tooling, and ways of working within the data team
What They're Looking For
- Around 3-5 years' experience in a Data Science or advanced analytics role
- Strong Python skills, including libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn
- Experience with gradient boosting frameworks (e.g. LightGBM or similar)
- Solid grounding in statistics and machine learning concepts
- Comfortable working with structured data and SQL
- Ability to communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience taking models beyond experimentation into production environments
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability
Nice to Have
- Exposure to R for analysis or experimentation
- Understanding of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, Docker, or similar)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and collaborative workflows
- Experience working in Agile environments
