Data Scientist - Onsite London (PhD Required)

Welltower Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Welltower is hiring a Data Scientist to join the London team on-site, collaborating with US/Canada data science and UK investment units. You will apply machine learning, predictive analytics, and statistical methods to enhance capital allocation and asset management decisions in the UK.

The role focuses on data integration, model development, and presenting insights to support UK investment activities while leveraging AI outputs across our real estate and healthcare portfolio.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of data and analytics landscape with at least 2 years of experience.
• Strong understanding of ML techniques and algorithms (tree-based models, neural networks).
• Experience with data mining and visualization tools (Tableau/PowerBI/Alteryx).
• Proficiency in at least one data science toolkit (R/MatLab/Python).
• Familiarity with real estate/finance/healthcare data systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist Business Insights with data and analytics strategy for UK asset management and investment teams.
• Guide investment decisions using the data science platform.
• Select features and build classifiers using ML techniques.
• Incorporate third-party data into models as needed.
• Analyze model outputs to inform UK investment processes and challenge theses with data.

Skills

Predictive Modeling

Machine Learning

Python

R

Data Visualization

Communication

Education

PhD or Masters in Mathematics/Statistics/Economics/Financial Analysis with Predictive Analytics focus

Background in CS/IS/Engineering/Statistics

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Alteryx

Python

Job description

Welltower is hiring a Data Scientist to join the London team on-site, collaborating with US/Canada data science and UK investment units. You will apply machine learning, predictive analytics, and statistical methods to enhance capital allocation and asset management decisions in the UK.

The role focuses on data integration, model development, and presenting insights to support UK investment activities while leveraging AI outputs across our real estate and healthcare portfolio.