Senior Data Scientist - Engineering Analytics

Hoare Lea; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice

Stock options

25 days annual leave (increasing with)

Job summary

Hoare Lea is recruiting a Data Analyst/Scientist or Senior Data Analyst/Scientist to join our digital team in Bristol or London. The role uses data, analytics, statistical methods, and data science to generate insight, support decision-making, and improve engineering services across the business.

You will work across the full lifecycle, translating stakeholder questions into analytical problems, developing reproducible code, and delivering actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Experience applying data to real-world business, engineering or operational problems.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills to derive actionable insights.
• Ability to work on projects independently and own deliverables.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data manipulation, analysis, visualization and data science (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn).
• Proficiency in SQL and software engineering practices (version control, testing, code review).
• Strong data visualization experience (Power BI, Streamlit).
• Experience with ML/AI including generative AI.
• Familiarity with statistics and their application in data analysis.
• Clear communication and ability to present findings to diverse audiences.
• Understanding of data governance and privacy.

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholder needs and translate questions into analytical problems.
• Develop and implement data-driven solutions to business problems across the company.
• Use SQL, Python to explore data, test hypotheses and generate insights.
• Apply statistical, forecasting, ML/AI methods where beneficial.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to turn analysis into reusable tools and workflows.
• Develop reproducible and maintainable analytical code with version control and testing.
• Share approaches and best practices to grow analytical capability.

Skills

Python

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

SQL

Power BI

Streamlit

Machine learning

AI/Generative AI

Data governance

Communication

Statistics

Tools

Power BI

Streamlit

TensorFlow

PyTorch

OR-Tools

Docker

Job description

Hoare Lea is recruiting a Data Analyst/Scientist or Senior Data Analyst/Scientist to join our digital team in Bristol or London. The role uses data, analytics, statistical methods, and data science to generate insight, support decision-making, and improve engineering services across the business.

You will work across the full lifecycle, translating stakeholder questions into analytical problems, developing reproducible code, and delivering actionable insights.