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Prestigious opportunity with a Global Market-leading Retail organisation for a Data Scientist to join our success story. Following a period of significant growth, we are driving our technology to continue our global expansion.

You will be responsible for:-

Building robust and scalable pipelines to extract, transform and load data for analytics and machine learning workflows.
Ensuring data quality, integrity and accessibility through automated quality checks and validation processes.
Translating complex business logic and strategies into actionable data science solutions.
Utilising a range of statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to develop predictive models and forecasting solutions.
Deploying, monitoring and maintaining models in production using best practices in MLOps.
Using Power BI or Python based visualisations to translate analysis into clear, actional business insights.

If you possess a combination of some of the following skills then, LETS TALK!

Bachelors degree, PhD or Masters in Data Science, Computing, Mathematics, Statistics or related field.
Previous commercial experience in Data Science.
Proficiency in Python and strong command of SQL.
Familiar with Git for version control.
Knowledge of Power BI.
Familiar with Azure DevOps or similar.

In return, you will be rewarded with a perfomance related bonus scheme, retail discount card, free parking, an on-site restaurant, ongoing career development and training.

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