Data Scientist

Our client is a leading provider of supportability services to the UK defence sector, delivering unrivaled support solutions for over 60 years. Delivering a seamless support solution, covering everything from supportability engineering, comprehensive obsolescence management, and through-life support. The Data Science team is a new team that's been created with data, data science, and analytics at its heart, leading the business to become a data-led company. They want to recruit experienced and creative data scientists, data engineers, and data analysts who want to use their existing skills to produce advanced solutions and insights, learn new skills and of course, have some fun along the way.They want you to help them deliver solutions and insights through new capabilities such as graph databases and analytics, machine learning, and image and text processing.About the roleAs a data scientist, you will be responsible for delivering a range of machine learning and AI models, and for developing and delivering their graph capabilities. You will work as part of a new team of data scientists working in these areas, as well as working closely with their software development and product teams. In this role, you will have the opportunity to:Develop advanced machine learning modelsExtract and manipulate data Develop and maintain data science modelsCreate data pipelines and a mechanism to monitor and manage these jobs.Design and build repositories to hold wrangled data.Mentor junior members of the team ensuring best practices are developed and then maintained.Work in agile teams, with code reviews and source control.Research new ML techniques and keep abreast of the latest developments in machine learning, reading the latest literature to identify relevant techniques.Learn new skills, test and prove new technologies or capabilities, and drive what you discover into working production solutions.Write blogs and whitepapers on contemporary and latest developments in data science and machine learning to reach a wide audience.About youThey require data scientists with several of the following skills and experience:-A degree (preferably MSc/Phd) in a quantitative discipline (eg Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics etc)-ML Ops -Python -Jupyter notebooks -Working with cutting-edge (e.g., transformer-based) NLP models for NER and relationship extraction -Large-scale knowledge graphs -Entity resolution, graph analytics, and graph searching techniques-Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with stakeholders and clients to establish requirements in non-technical language, and the ability to translate those requirements into real solutions.-Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to explain data science concepts to stakeholders and large audiences.-Well organised and accurate with good time management.-Ability to solve real-world problems with independent research while being able to work in a team.In addition to a competitive salary, they offer:Professional development, with support for training courses, certifications, and conferences.Fully remote work from anywhere within the UK, though you will be required to travel to the office in Gloucestershire and client sites for meetings as necessary.A pension scheme, a cycle-to-work scheme, and other benefits.25 days annual holiday plus up to 5 additional days.Hackathons and other company events.Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC levelElectus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.This role is a permanent position