Data Scientist

Data Scientist | Cardiff / Hybrid | Engineering | AI & Predictive Analytics

We're supporting a growing engineering business looking to hire a Data Scientist to help develop scalable ML and AI solutions across compliance, risk and contractor analytics platforms.

You'll work closely with AI Engineers, Data Engineers and DevOps teams to build and deploy predictive models and LLM-powered solutions in production environments across AWS and Azure.

The Role

This is a hands-on opportunity to work on modern AI and machine learning initiatives that directly support operational performance, compliance and risk management. You'll be involved in the full model lifecycle from data ingestion and feature engineering through to deployment, optimisation and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

Develop machine learning models for risk scoring, churn prediction and contractor analytics

Build LLM and NLP solutions for automated compliance checks and insight generation

Deploy AI and ML models into cloud-based production environments

Work with Microsoft Fabric for data ingestion, transformation and feature engineering

Improve model monitoring, retraining and optimisation processes

Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams in agile delivery squads

Communicate technical solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Contribute to best practices around coding standards, maintainability and AI-assisted development

Tech Stack

Python, SQL, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, NLP, LLMs, MLOps

What We're Looking For

Strong commercial Data Science experience

Experience building and deploying ML models into production

Strong understanding of predictive modelling, NLP and LLM architectures

Cloud experience with AWS and/or Azure

Experience with Python, SQL and modern ML frameworks

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Ability to work collaboratively in agile engineering teams

Desirable Experience

Risk modelling or compliance analytics

Supply chain or operational analytics

MLOps and CI/CD pipelines

Data governance or regulatory environments

Why Apply?

You'll join a collaborative engineering environment working on genuinely impactful AI projects with modern tooling and cloud technologies. This is an opportunity to help shape the future direction of AI capability within a growing business while working on real-world applications of LLMs and predictive analytics