Senior Data Scientist - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Sadler Recruitment Ltd

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Description
The company plan to be the industry-standard technology service globally. There is now a great demand for technology services to transform this market.

The sheer depth and breadth of data captured create new business opportunities and offer a chance fora Data Scientist with a frontier spirit to innovate.


The team is 4 strong currently and have BI covered with 2 of the team fielding the data requests and using Power BI for visualisations.

The Senior Data Scientist will join another Senior Data Scientist to play a key role in data mining, data insights, dataenrichment, data visualisation and creating data-led products to transform the industry.

The data is stored in multiple data sources including a Postgres DB, Sharepoint and AWS. The data is unique and holds great value to the industry.


A typical day
Working on their online platform to mine data, assess the condition of the product/create insight and data visualisations.

  • Sprint based working model, The Senior Data Scientist will be given tickets allocated by the Head of Data (rough roadmap but ideas encouraged)
  • Speak to stakeholders across the organisation to gather requirements (e.g. executive team, industry experts, surveyor management, finance officers)
  • Take part in whiteboard sessions with other members of the data team to iterate on development threads
  • Open Jupyter notebook
  • Get data from the data warehouse using SQL
  • Use Pandas to slice and dice the data
  • Use Plotly to build data apps in Python
  • Create filters, data points and visualisations
  • Create and plot data ready for presentation

Experience needed

  • Ability to perform data mining and exploratory data analysis tasks from structured and unstructured data sets.
  • Proven experience with industryrecognised data science tools and techniques including software development skills to perform statistical analysis and data transformation tasks (R, Python).
  • Familiarity with SQL for data extraction and practical knowledge of working with a data warehouse.
  • Demonstrable data visualisation and data app experience to showcase your insights
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to internal stakeholders and customers
  • An analytical mindset with a datadriven approach to problemsolving, coupled with an inherent creative streak
  • Informal discussion with the Head of Data
  • Offline technical challenge a walk into the life of Data Science at our client
  • Formal facetoface interview

Additional Information

  • 35hour working week (normal hours 84 or 95)
  • The company is based in Cardiff Bay (CF to 2 days a week in the office
- £50,000 - £60,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

  • Annual Bonus dependent on company performance. Pays up to 10%.
  • 25 days holiday with options to buy additional
  • Private Healthcare
  • Very generous pension
  • Flexible working patterns
  • Social Club
  • Cycle or work scheme
For immediate consideration please send your CV in today

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