Senior Data Scientist - Lead and Impactful ML in Production

Vodafone; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone VOIS is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to provide senior scientific leadership for data science and applied-model development within Digital Engineering, Digital & IT. Based flexibly in Newbury orPaddington, UK, you will translate challenges into analytical approaches and guide production-ready models with a focus on explainability and fairness.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Engineering and ML/AI Engineering to ensure models are validated and deployed effectively, measuring

Qualifications

• Extensive applied data science experience and leadership in modelling and experimentation.
• Advanced Python and statistical/machine learning libraries.
• Strong understanding of supervised/unsupervised learning, forecasting, causal inference, and experimental methods.

Responsibilities

• Frame business challenges as testable data science questions with measurable outcomes.
• Lead development and validation of predictive, forecasting, anomaly and fraud models.
• Define experimental design, sampling, feature engineering and evaluation methods.

Skills

Applied Data Science

Python programming

ML fundamentals

Model evaluation

Experiment design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication of uncertainty

Education

Postgraduate qualification in a quantitative discipline

Tools

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Job description

Vodafone VOIS is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to provide senior scientific leadership for data science and applied-model development within Digital Engineering, Digital & IT. Based flexibly in Newbury orPaddington, UK, you will translate challenges into analytical approaches and guide production-ready models with a focus on explainability and fairness.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Engineering and ML/AI Engineering to ensure models are validated and deployed effectively, measuring