Senior Data Scientist: Lead Production ML at Scale

Boots; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

Job summary

Boots in Nottingham is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead data science products across commercial marketing, supply chain, and healthcare modelling. Based in Nottingham, you will drive end-to-end development and deployment of models in a fast-paced retail environment.

You will shape opportunities, collaborate with engineering and MLOps, and communicate complex results to non-technical stakeholders. The role includes mentoring colleagues and ensuring robust data protection and security

Qualifications

• A numerate degree in maths, statistics, data science or related field.
• At least three years of experience as a Data Scientist.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Practical experience training ML models.
• Experience with Git and collaborative development.
• Ability to translate business requirements into analytical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape business opportunities into data science requirements.
• Develop and deploy ML models from scratch or fine-tune existing ones.
• Train and evaluate classification, forecasting, and regression models.
• Define accuracy metrics, baselines, and experiments.
• Build scalable pipelines using Python, SQL, Databricks, and PySpark.
• Collaborate with engineering and MLOps to deploy models to production.
• Monitor live data products and drive continuous improvement.
• Explain data science concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide mentoring to colleagues.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Git

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Numerate degree

Tools

Databricks

PySpark

Azure DevOps

Job description

Boots in Nottingham is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead data science products across commercial marketing, supply chain, and healthcare modelling. Based in Nottingham, you will drive end-to-end development and deployment of models in a fast-paced retail environment.

You will shape opportunities, collaborate with engineering and MLOps, and communicate complex results to non-technical stakeholders. The role includes mentoring colleagues and ensuring robust data protection and security