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Senior Data Scientist - London- Spark | AWS | Python | SQL | Scala | Java

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11 months ago
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Summary:

A globally leading technology firm are looking for a hands-on, engineering and data-focussed Senior Data Scientist to join their engineering team in London. Working in a heavily data-driven role, with platforms that can handle over 15 million queries/ second and multiple petabytes of data, the successful Senior Data Scientist will be joining a highly agile, London-based engineering team. The successful Senior Data Scientist will be working very close to the business, and directly collaborating with engineers, product managers, researchers in an end-to-end role that will involve design, architecture, development and delivery.

Requirements:

  • MSc or BSc in Computer Science, AI, ML, Mathematics, Physics or related hard science subject
  • Commercial experience as a Data Scientist
  • Interest and / or experience working with NLP, Machine Learning, graph mining, algo optimization, causal inference, etc. is beneficial
  • Programming experience with Python, Scala, Java, or strong knowledge of another OO or functional language
  • Experience with AWS, Spark, SQL


Benefits:

  • Market-leading base salary and restricted stock units
  • Market-leading benefits package
  • Hybrid in office (London) and work-from-home environment



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