Geospatial Data Scientist, Production-Focused Location

Relay Technologies; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Private health & dental

25 days holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Hardware policy

Gym subsidies

Cycle-to-work

Friday office lunch

Uber home & dinner for late nights

Job summary

Relay Technologies is seeking a Staff Data Scientist for Geospatial to own the location and movement datasets underpinning Relay’s delivery operation. You will define how they are built, measured, and evolved, and build models that make the operation faster and more reliable.

This senior individual contributor role works cross-functionally with Engineering, Operational Research and Data Scientists to integrate data solutions across the Relay network.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with geospatial data, telemetry, or GPS trace processing.
• Love maps and urban geography.
• Own production data products end to end with observability, testing, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Define how we measure geospatial data quality and prioritise improvements.
• Evolve location datasets continuously.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for geospatial data solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering to productionise and integrate data solutions.
• Build observability into pipelines to detect degraded data quality.
• Create reusable data products and core metrics for the business.
• Coach and mentor other data scientists on technical approaches.

Skills

Geospatial data

Telemetry

GPS traces

Data science

Production data products

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

Python

SQL

Geo tools

Data pipelines

Airflow

Job description

Relay Technologies is seeking a Staff Data Scientist for Geospatial to own the location and movement datasets underpinning Relay’s delivery operation. You will define how they are built, measured, and evolved, and build models that make the operation faster and more reliable.

This senior individual contributor role works cross-functionally with Engineering, Operational Research and Data Scientists to integrate data solutions across the Relay network.