Head of Data Science & MLOps

Jagex; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension contributions

Employee assistance programme

Life insurance

Discretionary annual bonus

Enhanced family leave

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Jagex is seeking an Associate Director of Data Science to lead a team of data scientists and own the MLOps practice, ensuring models are deployed, monitored and retrained in production. You will work with Player Support, Marketing, Analytics, and Game Teams to shape the RuneScape experience for millions of players.

The role combines hands-on delivery with leadership, offering flexible working options with onsite attendance as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data science teams and delivering on business outcomes.
• Hands-on data science with production ML models and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to deploy, monitor and retrain models in production.
• Strong communication with senior, non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data scientists, setting direction, managing workload, and supporting their growth.
• Build and own data science models that support teams across the business.
• Lead exploration of new business areas and data science models for embedding.
• Own the team's MLOps practice, including deployment, monitoring, versioning, retraining pipelines.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of data science initiatives from ideation to production.
• Serve as day-to-day contact for various teams on data science matters.
• Coach and mentor data scientists on technical delivery and stakeholder management.
• Stay current with latest data science and MLOps tooling and practice.

Skills

Data science leadership

MLOps

Model deployment

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Python

Statistical methods

Tools

MLOps tooling

Job description

Jagex is seeking an Associate Director of Data Science to lead a team of data scientists and own the MLOps practice, ensuring models are deployed, monitored and retrained in production. You will work with Player Support, Marketing, Analytics, and Game Teams to shape the RuneScape experience for millions of players.

The role combines hands-on delivery with leadership, offering flexible working options with onsite attendance as needed.