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About the Role

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be a pivotal, entrepreneurial technical expert responsible for setting technical direction and ensuring high-quality, scalable delivery of challenging, high-impact projects. This role combines deep machine learning expertise with strategic oversight to define project roadmaps, manage technical risk, and architect reliable solutions, focusing on driving innovation, mentoring teams, and shaping technical standards and customer relationships.

Responsibilities

Setting the technical direction for complex, business-critical projects, balancing speed, innovation, and reliability.
Designing and implementing reliable, production-grade technical solutions with comprehensive documentation.
Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing end-to-end delivery across multi-disciplinary workstreams.
Leading technical scoping and feasibility studies for sales opportunities and customer engagements.
Managing client relationships and communications, fostering trust and aligning technical solutions with commercial goals.
Driving the adoption of best practices, shared resources, and robust technical processes across the Data Science craft.
Mentoring and developing other data scientists and team members.

Requirements

Depth of expertise in at least one machine learning domain and strong technical breadth across the data science landscape.
Skilled technical leader proficient in mentoring individuals, managing teams, and rolling out impactful tools and workflows.
Proven project management expertise, capable of dividing complex problems into actionable workstreams with defensible timelines.
Adept at managing ill-defined, high-risk tasks, delivering innovative and practical outcomes under commercial pressure.
Strong customer leadership skills, acting as a trusted technical advisor and driving long-term strategic relationships.
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, aligning technical strategy with Engineering, Commercial (BD), and Infrastructure teams.
Experience extending technical oversight to business unit-level initiatives.
Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with clients from time to time.

Skills

Machine Learning
Data Science
Project Management
Technical Leadership
Customer Relationship Management
Cross-functional Collaboration

Location

On site with clients from time to time

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Part-time hours considered

Experience Level

Lead

Benefits

Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
Private healthcare and dental
Enhanced parental leave
Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
Sanctus Coaching

About the Company

Faculty was established in 2014 with the belief that AI would be the most important technology of our time.
Faculty has worked with over 350 global customers to transform performance through human-centric AI.
Faculty innovates, builds, and deploys responsible AI that makes a significant impact.
Faculty possesses unparalleled depth of technical, product, and delivery expertise.
Faculty serves clients across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defence.
Faculty's business and reputation are growing rapidly.
Faculty seeks individuals with intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology.
Faculty empowers employees to envision and implement powerful AI applications.
The Public Services Business Unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good.
The Public Services Business Unit works on impactful projects in government, including optimizing the NHS and reducing bureaucratic backlogs.

Equal Opportunity

We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one.
Diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, strengthening our principle of seeking truth.
Diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world.
We are united by deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact.
We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.