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About the Role

This role requires working with UK Defense and Intelligence, demanding the ability to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. As part of the Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering team, you will deliver real outcomes for complex organizations by embedding within customer teams to solve their toughest challenges using AI-powered, cloud-based solutions. You will be a Senior Data Scientist driving high-impact engineering projects, transforming missions with AI and cloud services.

Responsibilities

Acquire data necessary for project plans and develop usable datasets for modeling.
Update internal best practices for data collection and preparation.
Contribute to data integrity conversations with customers.
Evaluate team models and recommend improvements.
Drive best practices for models and develop operational models that run at scale.
Conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques.
Identify and invent new evaluation methods.
Research and maintain deep industry knowledge, including trends and technologies.
Identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership best practices.
Write extensible code that spans multiple features.
Develop expertise in proper debugging techniques.
Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals.
Partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities.
Apply a customer-oriented focus to understand needs.
Help drive realistic customer expectations.
Embody company culture and values.

Requirements

Must have or be able to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
Demonstrated experience or strong interest in working in customer-facing environments.
Comfortable with a travel requirement of approximately 25%.

Skills

Data management
Developing statistical techniques to analyze data and find patterns
AI
Cloud-based solutions
Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE)
Debugging techniques
Customer-oriented focus

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Data Scientist
Data Science IC4

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
Doctorate Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field

Salary/Compensations

£ 74,700.00 - £ 122,600.00 per year

Benefits

Competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around personal needs.

About the Company

Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering team delivers real outcomes for complex organizations.
We are a global team of world-class engineers working in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model.
We embed directly within customer teams to solve their toughest challenges, side-by-side, and ship production-ready solutions rapidly.
We operate in small, multidisciplinary teams, enabling tight feedback loops and rapid iteration.
We build AI-powered, cloud-based solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
Our work is powered by Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE), a methodology of applying AI across the full lifecycle.
We collaborate with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to create reusable, high-impact solution patterns.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
We build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion.
We are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world.
Within ISE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers.
It’s an informal and flexible work environment.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.