Public Policy Data Scientist: AI & Data Solutions

ICF; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Pension scheme

Life assurance

25 days annual leave

Hybrid working policy

You Matter recognition program

Job summary

ICF is seeking a hands‑on Data Scientist to deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects in the UK and EU. You will work with subject matter experts to frame questions, analyse evidence and communicate results to diverse audiences.

You will join an established team, work across technically diverse projects, and contribute to proposals while ensuring reproducible work and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python for analysis and modelling with common data and ML libraries.
• SQL to extract, join and check data.
• Statistics and ML fundamentals including regression, classification and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Define problems with subject matter experts and clients, set success measures and data needs.
• Prepare and analyse data; build and evaluate models or prototypes.
• Present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences; invite feedback.

Skills

Python for analysis

SQL

Statistics

Machine learning

Language models

Prototyping with ML

Data preparation

Code maintainability

Stakeholder engagement

English communication

Education

Quantitative degree

Tools

Git

Cloud platforms

APIs

Job description

ICF is seeking a hands‑on Data Scientist to deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects in the UK and EU. You will work with subject matter experts to frame questions, analyse evidence and communicate results to diverse audiences.

You will join an established team, work across technically diverse projects, and contribute to proposals while ensuring reproducible work and scalable solutions.