Senior Data Scientist: Production ML & Business Impact

Virgin holidays; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Virgin Atlantic is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design, build, and productionise ML solutions that shape how we fly, plan, and delight our customers. You’ll own the full lifecycle from problem framing to deployment and monitoring.

Your work will influence operations and customer experiences, powering decisions that keep us ahead. You’ll help define our data-science practices and collaborate across teams in a hybrid, on-site setup.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering applied machine-learning projects in production.
• Proven record deploying ML models through CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with ML lifecycle tooling such as MLflow and Databricks.
• Strong understanding of testing, version control, containerisation, and monitoring.
• A degree, PhD or post-doc in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ML and optimisation projects, from concept through deployment and post-launch performance analysis.
• Build, test, and refine predictive and prescriptive models that deliver tangible business outcomes.
• Collaborate with data engineers and ML engineers to design robust pipelines integrated with CI/CD workflows, ensuring models are reproducible, version-controlled, and continuously deployed with confidence.
• Implement monitoring and retraining frameworks to maintain model performance and governance over time.
• Contribute to our internal ML frameworks and tooling, streamlining how we experiment, validate, and deploy models at scale.
• Partner with stakeholders across the airline to translate complex analytical results into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Stay curious; keep up with developments in ML, GenAI, and responsible-AI practices, bringing new ideas to how we innovate with data.

Skills

Python

Pandas

Scikit-learn

PySpark

SQL

MLflow

Databricks

CI/CD

Testing

Version control

Containerisation

Monitoring

Education

PhD in quantitative field

Degree in statistics / mathematics / CS

Tools

MLflow

Databricks

CI/CD pipelines

Jupyter/Python environment

Job description

Virgin Atlantic is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design, build, and productionise ML solutions that shape how we fly, plan, and delight our customers. You’ll own the full lifecycle from problem framing to deployment and monitoring.

Your work will influence operations and customer experiences, powering decisions that keep us ahead. You’ll help define our data-science practices and collaborate across teams in a hybrid, on-site setup.