Senior Data Scientist

BBC Studios; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Studios, a global media company, is hiring a Senior Data Scientist in London. The role spans across BBC Studios’ lines of business to enable data-driven decision making, education, and culture change within the organisation.

You will work within the Data Insights department, collaborating with stakeholders, deploying ML models, and keeping up with generative AI advances. Flexible working will be discussed at offer stage.

Qualifications

• Experience in a data science or closely aligned role.
• A degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field.
• Hands-on approach to problem solving from concept to detail.
• Good programming skills with Python.
• Good working knowledge of SQL and querying large datasets.
• Experience building machine learning models and deploying them into production.
• Experience interacting with stakeholders and translating business problems into practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work on a range of projects supporting all lines of business.
• Develop data capabilities to power data driven decision making.
• Select the appropriate algorithmic approach and data sources.
• Discuss and implement solutions from proof of concept to production.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, communicating insights and recommendations.
• Keep up to date with developments in generative AI and apply where appropriate.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Model deployment

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Math/Stats/CS degree

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

LOCATION: London TVC - 2 days a week in office

DEPARTMENT: Data Insights

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000 - £65,000 on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. Plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441.The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The way BBC Studios operates has changed significantly over the last 5 years. It has moved into new areas of business and alongside that has developed the data capabilities required to support a modern organisation. We have built a successful data science team and are looking for a senior data scientist to join us, working across the different BBC Studios’ lines of business.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

We have built a successful data science team and are looking for a Senior Data Scientist. You will be working across all of BBC Studios’ lines of business to understand where data science can make a difference. As data remains a developing capability within BBC Studios, this role will be central to driving data education and supporting the organisation’s cultural evolution. This role will play a critical role in the education and culture change we are bringing to the business and act as a champion for the Data Science team, promoting its work and building understanding of the value data driven insights can bring to BBC Studio.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Work on a range of projects supporting all lines of business. For commercial News, it might be automated decision-making to chose between subscription prompts and adverts, or for TV commissioning it could be developing synthetic audiences as an alternative to traditional surveys.
• Develop Studios’ capabilities to power data driven decision making, including automated tagging and other metadata focussed solutions to enhace discoverability and recommendations.
• Use your domain knowledge to select the appropriate algorithmic approach and data sources to solve a given problem.
• Discuss and implement the solution, from proof of concept to production.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business, clearly communicating insights, impact, and recommendations.
• Keep up to date with latest development in generative AI and apply where appropriate.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in a data science or closely aligned role.
• A degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field.
• A hands-on approach to problem solving, from understanding the impact down to mathematical details.
• Good programming skills with Python.
• Good working knowledge of SQL and experience querying large datasets.
• Experience building machine learning models and deploying them into production.
• Experience interacting with stakeholders and translating business problems into practical solutions.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.