Data Scientist - Outside IR35

550 625

Location: United Kingdom (London London) Type: Contract

Data Scientist - Outside IR35

(Python / Jupyter / BigQuery)

6 Month Contract 550 - 625 per day

This tech consulting firm has built a reputation for building innovation software solutions across the UK and Europe. This organisation has currently undertaken a new venture and is working on this venture from early stage inception!

The role will be working on a new insurance proposition. The role will see you be part of a talented cross skilled team of Designers, Testers, Engineers and Data Experts.

We are looking for a senior data scientist that has a pragmatic, hands on, and business outcome focussed approach. The right individual will understand that our client is on a journey to move towards data science applications and will take a bottom up, iterative approach towards this vision. In the early stages they will be expected to work alongside the business and to help users develop and extend existing models written in Jupyter notebooks.

The right candidate will be an experienced advocate for data science, comfortable with working directly with business users and mentoring them, whilst progressing the conversation towards more advanced applications of data science.

Core Skills

• Python (expert)
• Knowledge of the leading numerical / statistical libraries (Jupyter notebooks)
• SQL (intermediate knowledge).
• Google BigQuery * Industry experience and real life applications of machine learning, deep learning, statistical modelling Industry experience
• Any candidate with Actuarial Science experience is at a strong advantage
• Any candidate with Insurance and/or Asset Management experience is at a strong advantage Soft Skills
• This is a client facing role. The candidate will be embedded with the client (albeit remotely) and will spend a large proportion of their day working alongside business users
• Mentoring, advice, guidance and pair programming with users that are more junior in Python and SQL
• A focus more on the practical side than the theoretical side of data science
• Able to explain advanced concepts to non-technical and non-mathematical audiences such as senior stakeholders

Role: Data Scientist (Outside IR35)

Contract Salary: 550 - 625 per day - Outside IR35

Position is largely remote with some in-person workshops in London every few weeks

Reference: *AMC*2301

Reference: amc*2301