Remote Data Science Manager - AI Delivery & Leadership

Kainos Group plc

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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