Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist
Location: Cardiff
Salary/Rate: £500 - 560 per day inside IR35
Start Date: June
Job Type: Initial 12 month contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Data Scientist to conduct statistical analysis to support product strategy decisions.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
This role is focused on supporting day-to-day analytical activities across customer portfolios, including credit application assessments, standard financial and risk analysis, and product-related analysis. The individual will also contribute to research and development initiatives, monitor and evaluate model performance, and support the migration of existing analytical processes to cloud-based platforms. Overall, the role requires a strong blend of analytical capability, technical understanding, and adaptability to evolving tools and environments.

The ideal candidate will have experience in data mining, statistical methods, and modelling / scoring techniques.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

Have experience of independently running analysis of large datasets, producing results and presenting these to business partners with support of data science peers.
Have degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics or quantitative methods (or equivalent experience).
Have good understanding of statistical methods applied to data analysis.
Have user experience of Cloud capabilities, preferred Databricks.
Have user experience of coding languages for data science and machine learning (e.g. Python, R).
Have good written communication skills, including the ability to describe statistical results to non-statistical audiences.
Experience processing large data sets and matching/merging multiple data sets.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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