Remote Data Science Manager - AI Delivery & Leadership

Kainos Group plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Data Scientist Manager to lead delivery of advanced AI and data solutions. You will manage a high-calibre team, drive architectural decisions, and engage with senior stakeholders across government, healthcare, and commercial sectors.

We value people-first culture, continuous learning, and engineering excellence as we scale AI capabilities responsibly and at citizen scale.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or a similar quantitative field.
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver AI/ML solutions.
• Experience with AI delivery including architecture, product design principles and engineering excellence.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML models, including time series, supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and LLMs.
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI.
• Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews).
• Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability and ethical considerations.
• Strong interpersonal skills to lead client projects, manage C-level stakeholders and establish requirements/architecture concepts.
• Experience coaching and developing junior members of a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art ML and AI technologies.
• Lead and coach a multi-disciplinary team, setting standards and driving engineering excellence.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to agree architectural principles, strategy and system architecture.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team.

Skills

Team leadership

AI delivery leadership

Python

Data engineering

ML models

Prompt engineering

RAG

Agentic AI

Architectural design

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Coaching

Education

2.1 degree in Computer Science / AI / Data Science / Statistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

XGBoost

Vector databases

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Data Scientist Manager to lead delivery of advanced AI and data solutions. You will manage a high-calibre team, drive architectural decisions, and engage with senior stakeholders across government, healthcare, and commercial sectors.

We value people-first culture, continuous learning, and engineering excellence as we scale AI capabilities responsibly and at citizen scale.