Data Scientist (Associate III - Data Analysis)

We are recruiting Data Scientists with strong technical ability who can articulate well to non-tech audience, who will join our UK team on a permanent basis.

Location: Leeds/Hybrid

Working model: Hybrid

Type: Full time regular employment

The Role:

This role will be part of the UST UK Data Science team, which has achieved great recognition and results in its short life. The Data Scientist will engage with external Clients and internal customers, understand their needs and deliver insights, recommendations and tools to shape their actions. They will also mentor up to two junior data scientists or interns within the team.

This will involve the application of advanced analytical methodologies including predictive modelling, recommendation engines and statistical assessments on complex and often disjointed datasets, and taking the form of reports and presentations, or through the development of prototypes and dashboards.

This requires a blend of skills including programming, data analysis and statistics, as well as data-led storytelling, communication and business expertise. Additionally creative and innovative thinking, a proactive work ethic, attention to the fine details and the ability to challenge the status quo are also valuable traits.

You will frequently work as part of a scrum team, together with data scientists, ML engineers and analyst developers, to onboard datasets for analysis, and models scaled and automated for implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of both ad-hoc analysis requests from external Clients and internal customers, as well as proactive value-add research delivered through documents, dashboards, presentations, etc.
• Exploration of new data sets to assess their value towards existing or future book of work
• Mentoring junior data scientists
• Creation of self-service analytical tools and dashboards. This would be in cases where a question or request is likely to be repeated by other members.
• Contributing towards the creation of a set of tools, techniques and practices that maximise the impact and efficiency of the team in
• Sharing data science knowledge to the wider functions where you will turn raw data into useful and analysable derived data sets, and develop re-usable analytical and visualisation methods
  

What you will need:

• BSc/MSc/PhD in Maths, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science or related subject, or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge and experience of the craft of creating actionable insights that non-technical stakeholders can act upon.
• Significant experience in advanced data science coding (eg. Python, R, SQL)
• Knowledge, awareness and experience of the deployment of ML models and other advanced analytics into a production environment.
• Effective communication of results, including visualisation and presentation skills.
  

What we believe:

We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion, and to place people at the centre of everything we do.

Humility: We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone. Humanity: Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity: We honour our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.