Lead Data Scientist
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Lead Data Scientist | £85-95k | Gambling | Hybrid Leeds or Newcastle If you're a Lead Data Scientist who wants to work for one of THE best and fastest growing Data functions in this sector then you'll want to check this out... About the business G.Digital has partnered with this organisation in the online gaming space who are revolutionising the game playing experience! From being one of the only cloud native operators, to creating all of their products in house they're incredibly focused on the user experience end to end They've worked on strategies to keep players safe, grown from 10 to over 400 employees and expanded into a handful of countries and now they're looking to building a data science capacity to deliver high-impact work around the UK and Europe! Why did we choose to work with them?✅ Investing heavily in their Tech and Product teams ✅ Remote first and great work life balance ✅ Brand new Data Science practice ✅ Working on a number of new Greenfield projects ✅ Big on L&D About the role The Head of Data has been building appetite and use cases for Data Science and ML over the last 9 months and now are in a position to deliver this work. You'll be responsible for a number of different things including: Delivering on the aims related to a wider Data Strategy Integrating recommender data science models to increase NGR Nurturing the Science function and growing a team by the end of the year Focusing on improving Data retention Gain a more in depth understanding of regulatory compliance & reporting Enhance your skills and lead a function using your expertise in developing ML models And outside of the day-to-day projects:
- Staying on top of industry developments within the business and the Data Science community
- R&D/Product Development - developing new data science offerings and use cases
- Establishing and implementing best practice
- Mentoring and coaching other team members
- Commercial experience applying ML models
- Python, SQL or R
- Any cloud data platforms would be great - AWS, Azure or GCP
- Any big data technologies like Hadoop would be great
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
- £85-95k
- Bonus of up to 10%
- Flexible working (core hours)
- Private health
- 8% Pension
- Life Assurance
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