Data Scientist

We are recruiting for a Data Scientist on behalf of one of the UK's fastest-growing technology consultancies, ranked in the Financial Times FT1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies list in both 2025 and 2026.

This is a genuinely compelling opportunity for a Data Scientist who wants their work to mean something. Our client is a fast-growing, values-driven consultancy working at the heart of the UK's most critical public sector programmes, spanning cyber security, national security, law enforcement, and telecommunications. As a Data Scientist, you will tackle complex, high-stakes data challenges for government clients, applying advanced data science and machine learning techniques to help organisations make faster, more accurate, and better-informed decisions where it really counts.

Key Responsibilities

Leading client projects and providing subject matter expertise, including pitches and presentations.

Working in scrum-like environments for iterative, fail-fast work and innovation.

Assessing clients' business and technical needs, identifying opportunities for data science and managing stakeholder relationships appropriately.

Identifying relevant data sources and working with various forms of data, including unstructured, semi-structured, and structured formats, modelling them appropriately for efficient data science use.

Investigating and analysing data to identify meaningful insights, applying statistical and evidence-based techniques to inform actions.

Communicating technical content clearly to both internal teams and clients, presenting a compelling narrative of the data using data science tooling.

Building maintainable code using existing data science libraries, implementing established techniques or developing novel approaches as required.

Designing, evaluating, and implementing on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid data science and machine learning techniques and algorithms, including testing, risk identification, and mitigation.

Developing scalable models and algorithms suitable for production deployment.

Applying ethical principles in handling data.

Key Requirements

5+ years of degree-level industry experience in data science, with a background in a STEM subject.

Experience working in a consultancy, engineering, or data industry.

Experience leading client delivery across data science, data engineering, and data security projects, with proven Python skills applied to data science.

Experience working on cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Knowledge of CI / CD tooling to analyse, build, test, and deploy code.

Experience in database technologies including SQL, NoSQL such as Elasticsearch, and graph databases.

Solid understanding of coding best practices, design patterns, versioning, dependency management, code quality, optimisation, error handling, logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Demonstrable continuous personal development and strong interpersonal skills.

If you enjoy untangling complex data problems, thrive in uncertain environments, and want to be part of a team that is agile, collaborative, and genuinely daring, this is an opportunity worth exploring. You will have the chance to lead from the front, shape the future of a fast-growing business, and do work that has real, lasting impact on the security and resilience of the UK.

To learn more, please get in touch.

Due to the nature of the clients and projects supported by this role, all candidates must be British nationals and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC). Candidates holding dual nationality or multiple passports are unfortunately unable to be considered for this position.

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