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1 year ago
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Up to £90,000 + 10% bonus, car allowance and benefits

REMOTE (London once a month)


This is a chance to join a leading Telecomms company as a part of their Data Science team help build and deploy impactful models and work with cutting-edge technologies. They are looking for a Lead MLE to work end to end, building and deploying models.


ROLE:

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:


  • Building, deploying and productionising segmentation, churn, and recommender system-based projects, alongside deep learning and neural networks to support core internal projects
  • Part of a team of 7 reporting to the Head of Data Science
  • Chance to upskill and mentor juniors whilst remaining fully hands-on
  • Focusing on end-to-end data pipelines, for training, evaluating and deploying ML models
  • Working closely with Data Scientists on client partners, advising on best practice ML and MLOps infrastructure
  • Driving best practices in a fast-paced environment, within a well-established company


REQUIREMENTS:

  • MSc or PhD level education in STEM subjects.
  • Strong experience in building and deploying ML models
  • Preference for experience in customer modelling but not required
  • Candidates should be looking to work in a fast paced startup feel environment
  • Tech across: Python, SQL, AWS, Databricks, PySpark, AB Testing, MLFlow, APIs


If this role looks of interest, please reach out to Joseph Gregory.

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