Senior Data Scientist - ML & Personalisation (Hybrid)

Forge Holiday Group; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Birthday day off

Volunteer days

Hybrid & flexible working

Health cash plan

Employee discounts

Job summary

Forge Holiday Group is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to design, build and ship machine learning models that power pricing, personalisation, forecasting and customer experiences. You’ll work across product, commercial and engineering teams, mentoring colleagues and ensuring models are production-ready with MLOps practices.

The role is hands-on and strategic, reporting to the Head of Data Science, with a strong emphasis on delivering commercially valuable solutions and influencing business

Qualifications

• Hands-on data science and ML experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills for data manipulation and modeling.
• Experience taking ML projects into production and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship ML models that solve business problems.
• Work on pricing, personalisation, forecasting and customer experience.
• Turn complex challenges into practical, value-driving solutions.
• Lead projects from framing to production deployment.
• Build and maintain reliable models using modern MLOps practices.
• Collaborate with product, commercial and engineering teams.
• Mentor other data scientists and raise technical standards.

Skills

Data Science

ML experience

Python

SQL

MLOps

Tools

pandas

scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

Azure ML

Job description

Forge Holiday Group is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to design, build and ship machine learning models that power pricing, personalisation, forecasting and customer experiences. You’ll work across product, commercial and engineering teams, mentoring colleagues and ensuring models are production-ready with MLOps practices.

The role is hands-on and strategic, reporting to the Head of Data Science, with a strong emphasis on delivering commercially valuable solutions and influencing business