Lead Data Scientist
Location:
London
Salary:
£100000 - £125000 per annum + benefits, bonus
Job Type:
Permanent
Date Posted:
9 days ago
Expiry Date:
29/03/2025
Job Ref:
EPO0687995556_1739360069
Start Date:
12/02/2025
Contact:
Niall Wharton
Contact Email:
niall.wharton@xcede.com
Specialism:
Machine LearningData ScienceNLPDataComputer VisionAI ResearchAI & Machine LearningAI Engineering
Lead Data Scientist
(x3 days a week in the London office)
Xcede are delighted to be working with a marketing leading organisation in their hunt for a new Lead Data Scientist / Chief Data Scientist. The company have a small pre-existing team and are looking for a senior "player coach" (someone who still loves the hands on work in Data Science mainly, but who also has experience in mentoring or managing others and leading projects).
There are key technical experiences that would be beneficial here:
- LLM based projects in one or more sectors
- Contextual recommender system experience / contextual recommendation engine experience
- Experience in deploying their algorithms into production at scale
- Metadata related / big data set experience
Responsibilities:
- Be the Principal technical contributor / Tech Lead for the Data Science & Machine Learning function.
- Manage and grow a team of data scientists & ml engineers
Requirements:
- Years of commercial experience as a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer
- Experience leading technical projects from start to finish
- End to end machine learning expertise and strong statistical knowledge
- Strong NLP & LLMs / RAG experience
- Computer Vision skills related to videos are a bonus.
If this role interests you and you would like to learn more, please apply here or contact us via niall.wharton@Xcede.com (feel free to include a CV for review).
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Niall Wharton
Specialisms: Data, Data Engineering, AI & Machine Learning, AI Research, NLP, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Generative AI, AI Engineering