Senior Product Data Scientist — Operations Delivery Intelligence

British Airways; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel benefits including UNL/BB

Up to 30 discounted Hotline airfares

Job summary

British Airways is seeking a Principal Product Data Scientist to join the Operations Delivery Intelligence directorate, driving industrialised decision-support software across airline operations. You’ll own production ML codebases, lead end-to-end delivery, and partner with stakeholders to optimise complex operational problems.

You’ll prototype and deploy ML models in Python, build robust data pipelines, and shape pipeline orchestration and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or greater in data science, ML, or operational research, or 6+ years of highly relevant industry experience (required)
• 4-6 years working on production ML or optimization software products at scale (required)
• Experience in developing industrialized software, especially data science or machine learning software products (required)
• Experience in relevant business domains (transportation, airlines, operations, network problems) (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner of one or more production-grade data science product codebases
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of decision-support software across the full product lifecycle
• Understand complex operational business problems end to end and identify opportunities for data-driven optimisation
• Drive modelling and system design decisions, balancing implementation time, system behaviour, technical debt and business value
• Prototype, build and deliver industrialised machine learning and optimisation models in Python
• Design and build robust data ingestion, cleaning and processing pipelines
• Implement orchestration pipelines and CI/CD deployment processes
• Ensure software quality through logging, error handling and automated testing
• Harden algorithms against operational and data edge cases
• Quantify product adoption and value capture
• Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback
• Contribute to feature prioritisation and roadmap discussions
• Support integration of decision-support products into operational business processes
• Communicate modelling approaches, trade-offs and results clearly to technical and business audiences
• Mentor and support junior team members
• Contribute to agile ways of working, including Git versioning, code reviews and delivery predictability

Skills

Applied ML

Optimization

Operational research

Python production ML

Education

Master’s degree in data science / ML / OR

Tools

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

ML tooling

Job description

British Airways is seeking a Principal Product Data Scientist to join the Operations Delivery Intelligence directorate, driving industrialised decision-support software across airline operations. You’ll own production ML codebases, lead end-to-end delivery, and partner with stakeholders to optimise complex operational problems.

You’ll prototype and deploy ML models in Python, build robust data pipelines, and shape pipeline orchestration and CI/CD.