AI & Data Science Leader | ML, GenAI & Cloud-Native

Kainos; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is a leading UK AI and data solutions company seeking a Data Scientist Manager to deliver advanced AI solutions and lead a cross-disciplinary team. You will drive modern AI development, architect systems, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure commercial success.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, responsible AI, and coaching junior team members while maintaining strong client relationships and delivery excellence.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or similar.
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver AI/ML solutions.
• Technical leadership for AI delivery including architecture, product design principles and engineering excellence.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML models, including time series, supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and LLMs.
• Experience with the latest AI engineering approaches such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI.
• Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews etc).
• Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability and ethical considerations.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead client projects, manage C-level stakeholders and establish requirements/architecture concepts.
• We are passionate about developing people, you will bring experience in managing, coaching and developing junior members of a team and wider community.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, generative and agentic AI technologies.
• Drive the adoption of modern AI development and scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together.
• Lead, coach and develop a team with focus on standards, policies and enduring customer relationships.

Skills

Team leadership

Python

AI/ML

Architectural leadership

Data engineering

Prompt engineering

RAG / agentic AI

Stakeholder management

Responsible AI

CI/CD & testing

Education

2.1 degree in Computer Science / AI / Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

XGBoost

Job description

Kainos is a leading UK AI and data solutions company seeking a Data Scientist Manager to deliver advanced AI solutions and lead a cross-disciplinary team. You will drive modern AI development, architect systems, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure commercial success.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, responsible AI, and coaching junior team members while maintaining strong client relationships and delivery excellence.