Lead Data Scientist

LGBT Jobs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work pattern

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Lead Data Scientist within Digital Services to lead a portfolio of data science products and drive continuous improvement. This hybrid role requires two office days per week and travel to Birmingham for team meetings.

You will guide multidisciplinary teams, set standards, and champion ethical data science while delivering measurable value for safety, delivery and customer outcomes across our network.

Qualifications

• Leads data science initiatives and solutions.
• Experience with ML/NLP and dashboards.
• Strong coding, testing and documentation practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of end-to-end data science products and services.
• Establish and maintain data science standards and quality frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership on complex analytical initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement in data science practices and ways of working.
• Promote adoption of data science and AI capability across the organisation.

Skills

Data science leadership

Machine learning

Data visualization

Tools

Python

R

TensorFlow

Job description

Lead Data Scientist role within Digital Services

Hybrid position with two days in the office and travel to Birmingham

Responsibilities include leading data science products and driving continuous improvement

Focus on safety, delivery, customer, ethics, and sustainability

Strong emphasis on technical leadership and capability building

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to use your data science skills for the public good, working with National Highways in our mission to connect the country and enable safer journeys. We believe that connecting people and communities creates job and social opportunities and helps businesses and the economy thrive. We make a positive difference to people's lives. We care about every person's journey. We aim to keep people moving today and moving better tomorrow. We want everyone on our network to get home safe and well.

We are seeking a curious and collaborative Lead Data Scientist to join our team within Digital Services. We provide National Highways with specialist skills and capabilities to keep pace with fast-moving digital change and the growing use of data and algorithms. This is a leadership role where you will guide multidisciplinary teams, foster a culture of continuous learning, and drive the development of innovative data products that deliver value. You'll work with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to uncover opportunities where data science can solve complex problems, with a focus on Safety, Delivery, Customer, ethics and sustainability.

This is a hybrid role, requiring two days per week in the office, based at any National Highways office location however, regular travel to Birmingham for team meetings will be required.

• Lead delivery of a portfolio of end-to-end data science products and services while managing priorities, capacity and delivery across the team.
• Establish, implement and maintain data science standards, methodologies and quality frameworks across the team's delivery.
• Provide technical leadership on complex analytical initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement in data science practices and ways of working.
• Promote adoption of data science and AI capability across the organisation through effective delivery, engagement and knowledge sharing.

About You

• Applies strong data science knowledge to solve complex problems, identify opportunities and drive innovation, while providing technical guidance to others.
• Builds data science capability across the team and organisation, using techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, modelling and dashboards to deliver effective solutions.
• Develops and maintains high-quality data science solutions, including coding, testing, documentation and quality reviews, while promoting good programming, reproducibility and maintainability practices.
• Creates impactful data science products that deliver clear business value, presenting complex analysis and visualisations clearly while supporting good data governance and ethical data science practices.
• Uses statistical and analytical techniques such as data mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics to generate insights, reports and models that support organisational objectives.

While a good understanding of transport would be useful, this is not essential, and National Highways prides itself on ensuring that staff can grow and develop their skills.

About us

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

The Digital Services Directorate is helping to reshape the way National Highways operates by delivering digital, data, and technology services across all areas, from frontline to back office, in a modern and efficient manner. Our vision is to develop integrated information and technology that empowers our colleagues and provides real-time information to our customers, as well as integrating with intelligent vehicle and transport systems as they evolve, to enhance journey safety and reliability.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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