Data Scientist

BRUSH careers; Loughborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance 26 days + bank

Flexible and Hybrid working

Life insurance – 4x annual salary

Enhanced Company Pension

Employee Assistance Programme

GP24 remote medical service

BRUSHRewards discounts

Family friendly policies

Bike2work

Long Service Awards

Professional development and training

Job summary

BRUSH Group is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Group IT Data & AI team. You will transform data into clear, trusted insights, design and deploy BI, analytics, ML models and AI-driven solutions across the business.

The role combines statistics, data science and business acumen. You’ll own use cases end-to-end, from problem framing to deployment, monitoring and value demonstration, shaping data science standards across the group.

Qualifications

• Degree in Data Science or related numerate discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development in BI, data science, analytics, ML, AI.
• Strong understanding of statistical methods and ML principles.
• Experience turning business challenges into robust analytics approaches.

Responsibilities

• Translate business challenges into BI, analytics, statistical and ML solutions.
• Identify patterns and opportunities within complex data to support decisions.
• Develop, validate and deploy predictive and forecasting models delivering measurable value.
• Maintain governed, trusted datasets for BI and data science use cases.
• Ensure data quality, lineage and governance across the analytics lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to align pipelines with reporting and modelling needs.
• Contribute to data model design to support analytics and ML.
• Prepare, cleanse and feature engineer data for analytics and AI use cases.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through advanced analytics and AI.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

BI/Analytics

Education

Degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Spark

Cloud platforms

Job description

BRUSH Group provides the energy solutions that help power our built world. From power transformers to switchgear and engineering solutions, for generations, the BRUSH brand has stood for engineering excellence.

We are committed to supporting the global effort for industrial decarbonisation and sustainable development and have set ambitious objectives to achieve our target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

What's the role?

The Data Scientist, working within the Group IT Data & AI team, is responsible for transforming data into clear, trusted and actionable insights. Working with stakeholders across the business, the Data Scientist will design, develop and deploy BI, advanced analytics, ML models and AI driven solutions.

This is a hands‑on, outcome‑focused role combining statistical, data science and analytical expertise with strong commercial curiosity. The Data Scientist will own selected use cases across the full lifecycle—from problem definition, data exploration and feature engineering through to model development, deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement—and will be accountable for demonstrating measurable operational or commercial value. The role will also influence technical and governance standards and help shape how data science and AI are adopted across the Group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate business challenges into BI, analytical, statistical and Machine Learning solutions.
• Identify patterns, trends and opportunities within complex datasets to support strategic and operational decision making.
• Develop, validate and deploy predictive models, forecasting models and AI solutions that deliver measurable business value. Evaluate model effectiveness and monitor model drift.
• Develop and maintain governed, trusted datasets for BI/analytics and data science use cases.
• Ensure appropriate data quality, lineage and governance controls are considered throughout the analytical lifecycle.
• Work closely with Data Engineers to ensure data pipelines and analytical datasets meet reporting/BI and modelling requirements.
• Contribute to the design and optimisation of data models that support analytics and Machine Learning.
• Support the preparation, cleansing, transformation and feature engineering of data for analytical and AI use cases.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation and decision making through advanced analytics and AI.

What Are We Looking For:

• Degree in Data Science or a related numerate discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development in BI, data science, advanced analytics, ML, AI.
• Strong understanding of statistical methods, experimental techniques, and ML principles.
• Advanced data science and analytical capability, with the judgement to turn complex business challenges into robust approaches and measurable outcomes.
• Strong practical capability in Python and SQL across data exploration, feature engineering, modelling and validation, with experience of Spark and modern cloud data platforms.
• Expertise in statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, classification, clustering and optimisation, including developing and deploying production machine‑learning solutions.
• Experience helping a growing data function establish technical standards, governance, best practices and effective ways of working.
• Proven success in a Data Scientist or comparable advanced analytics role, delivering measurable operational or commercial value.
• Substantial end‑to‑end experience defining, building, deploying and monitoring machine‑learning and advanced analytics solutions in production or operational environments.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• Holiday allowance starting at 26 days per annum plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles)
• Flexible and Hybrid working options (role dependant)
• Life insurance – 4 x annual salary
• Enhanced Company Pension scheme
• 24/7 free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• GP24 Service – Access to remote, private GP services 24/7, 365 days a year plus Second Medical Opinions.
• BRUSHRewards – Discover plenty of ways to get more active and make great savings on everyday essentials as well as gifts for loved ones, holidays and special treats for yourself.
• Family friendly policies including Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
• Bike2work scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering ongoing professional development and training.

About You

BRUSH Group provides agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design and project management as well as award‑winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.

About The Company

A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid‑resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net‑zero, helping create a future‑proof Infrastructure.