Senior Product Data Scientist Production ML & Optimisation

British Airways; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

British Airways is seeking a Principal Product Data Scientist to join the Operations Delivery Intelligence directorate. You will own production‑grade data science product codebases and lead end-to-end delivery of decision‑support software, applying ML and optimization to real-world airline challenges.

You'll collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements, design robust data pipelines, and drive CI/CD practices while mentoring colleagues and contributing to agile ways of working.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in data science, ML, or operations research, or 6+ years of highly relevant industry experience.
• 4–6 years working on production ML or optimization software at scale.
• Experience developing industrialized software, especially data science or machine learning software products.
• Experience in relevant business domains (transportation, airlines, operations) 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 problems end to end and identify opportunities for data‑driven optimisation.
• Drive modelling and system design decisions balancing time, behavior, debt, and value.
• Prototype, build and deliver industrialised ML and optimisation models in Python.
• Design and build robust data ingestion, cleaning and processing pipelines.

Skills

Applied ML

Optimization

Operational Research

Python production

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Version control

Software testing

Problem solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Systems thinking

Adaptability

Business value

Education

Master's degree or higher in data science / ML / OR

6+ years of relevant industry experience

Tools

Cloud platforms

ML tooling

Job description

British Airways is seeking a Principal Product Data Scientist to join the Operations Delivery Intelligence directorate. You will own production‑grade data science product codebases and lead end-to-end delivery of decision‑support software, applying ML and optimization to real-world airline challenges.

You'll collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements, design robust data pipelines, and drive CI/CD practices while mentoring colleagues and contributing to agile ways of working.