Lead Data Scientist, Digital Services (Hybrid)

LGBT Jobs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a curious and collaborative Lead Data Scientist to join Digital Services. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, deliver end-to-end data products, and use data science to improve safety, delivery, and customer outcomes.

This leadership role focuses on ethics, sustainability, and continuous innovation. The role is hybrid, with two days in the office and regular travel to Birmingham for team meetings.

Qualifications

• Applies strong data science knowledge to solve complex problems and drive innovation.
• Builds data science capability across the team using ML, NLP, modelling and dashboards.
• Develops high-quality data science solutions with coding, testing and documentation.
• Creates data science products delivering business value while ensuring governance and ethical practices.
• Uses data mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics to generate insights and models.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of a portfolio of end-to-end data science products and services.
• 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.

Job description

National Highways is seeking a curious and collaborative Lead Data Scientist to join Digital Services. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, deliver end-to-end data products, and use data science to improve safety, delivery, and customer outcomes.

This leadership role focuses on ethics, sustainability, and continuous innovation. The role is hybrid, with two days in the office and regular travel to Birmingham for team meetings.