Lead Data Scientist
11 days ago
Manchester
Lead Data Scientist My client is a fast-growing UK FinTech business serving thousands of customers. They are investing heavily in their data capability and are now looking to appoint a Lead Data Scientist to drive end-to-end machine learning delivery within a regulated financial environment. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical ownership, team development, and production-grade model deployment. The Role As Lead Data Scientist, you will: • Lead and develop a growing Data Science team, setting standards and delivery cadence, • Own end-to-end ML solutions - from problem framing and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, and governance, • Translate business objectives into modelling strategies aligned to risk appetite and operational constraints, • Build and deploy models using Python, SQL, and AWS (SageMaker or equivalent), • Partner closely with Engineering, Data, and Risk/Financial Crime teams to ensure robust, production-ready solutions, • Establish monitoring frameworks for performance, drift, and retraining, • Proven commercial ML/Data Science delivery with measurable impact, • Experience taking models into production and managing performance over time, • Prior experience leading or mentoring Data Scientists, • Strong Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn or similar), • Strong SQL (complex joins, aggregations, analytical functions), • Solid grounding in applied statistics, evaluation design, calibration, bias/fairness, • Experience working closely with Engineering/Data teams in production-first environments, • Comfortable operating within regulated industries Desirable, • AWS experience (S3, Athena/Glue, IAM, Lambda), • SageMaker or equivalent ML platform experience, • Financial services domain knowledge (risk, fraud, affordability, payments), • Experience with model explainability and governance documentation Package & Benefits, • Hybrid working model, • Competitive pension, • Additional paid leave (birthday, charity, wellbeing, life events), • Employee assistance programme & Virtual GP, • Modern collaborative office environment Interested? Please Click Apply Now! Lead Data Scientist