Lead ML Engineer - Drive Data-Driven Growth (Remote)

Kingfisher plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

25 Days’ Holiday

Staff Discount

Kingfisher SIP

Life Assurance

Bonus

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Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking a senior data science leader to drive AI initiatives across its brands. You will lead a team of Machine Learning Engineers, shape data platforms, and partner with tech, product and data teams to apply data science throughout products and processes.

You will champion a data-driven culture, translate business needs into data work, and build the data science brand for internal and external audiences.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering AI-based products and productionisation of ML.
• Proven experience developing cloud-based ML services using one or more cloud providers (preferably GCP).
• Excellent understanding of classical ML algorithms and modern DL algorithms.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and Python’s ecosystem for data analysis (Jupyter, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib).
• Strong software development skills (Python is the preferred language).
• Strong management and leadership skills – previous experience managing a team.
• Strong influencing, communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of data science projects to support commercial goals.
• Develop a highly proficient team of Machine Learning Engineers, establishing collaborative ways of working.
• Collaborate with tech, product and data teams to develop data platforms enabling data science.
• Support diverse teams in translating between business and data in design of project work and communication of results.
• Be a champion and role model for data science across the Kingfisher group.
• Support the data leadership team in developing a data culture and demonstrating value of data.
• Lead efforts to develop the data science brand for internal and external audiences.

Skills

AI/ML products

Cloud ML services

SQL & Python ecosystem

Python programming

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

GCP

Python

Jupyter

Job description

Kingfisher plc is seeking a senior data science leader to drive AI initiatives across its brands. You will lead a team of Machine Learning Engineers, shape data platforms, and partner with tech, product and data teams to apply data science throughout products and processes.

You will champion a data-driven culture, translate business needs into data work, and build the data science brand for internal and external audiences.