Principal Data Scientist, Water Sector - Hybrid

Stantec; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join our award-winning digital team. You will lead data science initiatives across the water sector, shaping digital strategies and delivering predictive analytics, optimization, and insightful data visualisations for clients.

Based in the UK with hybrid work across High Wycombe, London, Reading, Brighton or Southampton, you will mentor colleagues, drive cloud deployments (Azure), champion DevOps practices, and collaborate with clients to

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Python for data science and visualization.
• Strong ML model development, evaluation, and deployment experience.
• Cloud deployment experience (Azure) and DevOps practices.
• Ability to lead and mentor data science teams across projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science initiatives in the water sector, driving digital transformation.
• Derive insights using predictive analytics and optimization techniques.
• Build automated tools and solutions for clients with actionable outputs.
• Collaborate with clients to deliver high-quality results and maintain technical standards.
• Mentor junior colleagues and lead project teams.

Skills

Python

Data visualisation

Machine learning

Azure

DevOps

Version control

Power Platform

Power BI

Power Apps

Team leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Power BI

Power Apps

Job description

Stantec is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join our award-winning digital team. You will lead data science initiatives across the water sector, shaping digital strategies and delivering predictive analytics, optimization, and insightful data visualisations for clients.

Based in the UK with hybrid work across High Wycombe, London, Reading, Brighton or Southampton, you will mentor colleagues, drive cloud deployments (Azure), champion DevOps practices, and collaborate with clients to