Junior / Graduate Data Scientist
22 days ago
Manchester
Junior / Graduate Data Scientist Our client, a fast-growing and innovative organisation, is looking for a Junior / Graduate Data Scientist to join their expanding data function. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career data professional to gain hands-on experience across the full machine learning lifecycle in a regulated, real-world environment. You’ll work closely with Senior Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Analysts to develop, test, and support production-ready models using modern cloud technologies. The Role You will work primarily with Python, SQL, and AWS (including Amazon SageMaker) to: • Extract, transform, and analyse data from AWS data platforms, • Perform exploratory data analysis and communicate insights clearly, • Build and evaluate baseline machine learning models (classification & regression), • Support model experimentation in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, • Contribute to model deployment, monitoring, and safe rollout practices, • Follow best practices in Git, code review, testing, and Agile delivery, • Degree in a quantitative discipline (Data Science, Computer Science, Maths, Statistics, Physics, Engineering) or equivalent experience, • Early career stage (graduate, placement, bootcamp, or personal projects), • Strong Python skills (pandas, scikit-learn), • Solid SQL skills (joins, aggregations, relational data), • Understanding of ML fundamentals (train/test splits, overfitting, evaluation metrics), • Clear communication skills, • Strong learning mindset and interest in AWS/cloud technologies, • Comfortable working in a regulated environment Desirable, • Exposure to Amazon SageMaker, • Experience with Jupyter Notebooks, • Git and basic software engineering practices, • Data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI), • Financial services data exposure (risk, fraud, payments) What’s on Offer, • Structured development and mentorship, • Hybrid working model, • Company pension, • 23–28 days holiday + bank holidays, • Birthday leave, charity day, wellbeing day, wedding leave Interested? Please Click Apply Now! Junior / Graduate Data Scientist