- 6 month contract within the public sector
- Hybrid working (various bases across the UK)
- £25 - 27 per hour Inside IR35
- Active SC Clearance required
Data Scientist
The purpose of the Data Scientist is to code, manipulate, engineer, model and analyse data and/or data processes to underpin Data Architecture and support internal and external users. A data scientist identifies complex business problems whilst leveraging data value. They work as part of a multidisciplinary team with data architects, data engineers, analysts and others.
Day to Day
• Work with policy and operations teams to understand where data science can add value
• Support strategic and operational decision making in order to create impact
• Source, access, manipulate and engineer data processes with data that typically have characteristics of volume, velocity and variety, or both
• Build credible statistical models from the data and use best coding practices to generate reproducible work
• Adhere to the data science ethics framework
• Have an interdisciplinary focus, using techniques and knowledge from across the scientific spectrum
• explore and visualise the data to present the ‘story’ of the data in a meaningful way, and to a range of technical and non-technical audiences
• Use an evolving range of data analysis tools and techniques, including open source, some of which must be learnt quickly, as and when required
Skills and Experience
- Applied maths, statistics and scientific practices
- Experience working with other technologists and analysts to integrate and separate data feeds in order to map, produce, transform and test new scalable data products that meet user needs.
- The ability to Recognise and exploit business opportunities to ensure more efficient and effective ways to use data science.
- Continuously develops data science knowledge, utilising multiple sources.
- Understands the context of the business, its processes, data and priorities.
- Use the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling and actionable stories relevant for business goals.
- Maintain a user focus to design solutions that meet user needs, taking account of agreed cross-government ethics standards.
- Use a range of coding practices to build scalable data products that can be used by strategic or operational users and can be further integrated into business systems.
- Work with technologists to design, create, test and document these data products. Works in accordance with agreed software development standards, including security, accessibility and version control.
- Understands the different phases of product delivery to plan and run the analysis for these.
** MUST have Active SC Clearance **
Next Steps
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply with your CV and we will endeavour to get back to you.