Associate Director, Data Scientist – Hybrid

Fitch Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Environment

Learning & Mobility programs

Retirement planning

Healthcare offerings

Parental leave

Job summary

BMI, part of the Fitch Group, is seeking an Associate Director, Data Scientist in London to design and deploy quantitative models powering analytics for clients across industries. You will collaborate with country analysts, economists, and developers to deliver interpretable, scalable insights and support decision-making.

You will develop, refine, and monitor NLP and ML models, build robust data pipelines, and communicate outputs to stakeholders in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience querying, cleaning, compiling, and analyzing large datasets.
• Experience developing, refining, and monitoring NLP models.
• Ability to operationalize non-technical ideas into research designs and model outputs.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and test approaches for extracting insights from structured and unstructured data.
• Develop and maintain robust ML and data pipelines for experimentation and deployment.
• Design, build, and optimize risk models for analytics and generative AI applications.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Economists, Industry Analysts, Political Scientists, and Developers.
• Explain ML/NLP model outputs to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Big data analytics

NLP models

Python

R

Machine Learning

Experiment tracking

Communication of results

Model interpretation

Cloud platforms

SQL

Tools

Python libraries (numpy, pandas, scikit)

PyTorch

R packages (tidyverse, caret)

SQL

Sagemaker / API protocols

Weights & Biases

MLFlow

Job description

BMI, part of the Fitch Group, is seeking an Associate Director, Data Scientist in London to design and deploy quantitative models powering analytics for clients across industries. You will collaborate with country analysts, economists, and developers to deliver interpretable, scalable insights and support decision-making.

You will develop, refine, and monitor NLP and ML models, build robust data pipelines, and communicate outputs to stakeholders in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.