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Lead Data ScientistLocation: South Manchester – Hybrid (after 3 months)Salary: £65,000-£80,000 (Negotiable)Type: PermanentWe are hiring a Lead Data Scientist to join a growing, customer facing data science practice within an established digital transformation consultancy.You will deliver impactful tech for good programmes across Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Digital Democracy, working directly with customers to solve complex, high value problems.The Role:Build effective working relationships with key customer & third party stakeholders, leading interactions within your domainWork with customers to scope technical requirements and solution designOwn the end to end design and implementation of larger scale data science solutions, assuring development and maintenance of strong documentation, and ensuring that designs are translated into implementationOwn the full lifecycle from design and build through to deployment and continuous improvement across larger data science servicesWork in agile, multidisciplinary teams alongside Engineers and UCD specialistsAct as point of technical assurance for the work of junior practitioners, and support Senior practitioners to maximise quality and paceSupport with recruitment and training activities to enable continued growth of the data science capabilityYou will be acting as one of the main faces of the business on larger scale Data Science services, responsible for technical design, customer stakeholder management, assurance & deployment.What we are looking for:Strong commercial data science experience in Agile environmentsExcellent stakeholder management skills, ability to quickly build credibility and rapport with both technical and non-technical stakeholdersGood Python or R skills, writing production ready codeExperience with AWS, Azure or GCPExperience deploying models into live environmentsExperience working with sensitive data and understanding governance best practiceAbility to clearly communicate complex technical outputs to stakeholdersAbility to accurately translate client requirements into technical solutions, andDesirable:NLP experienceExperience deploying Generative AI applications, such as chatbots or RAG systemsConsultancy or professional services background would be advantageousIf you are a Lead Data Scientist who enjoys customer interaction and are looking to advance your career whilst helping deliver some of the UK's most important tech for good projects, we'd love to hear from you.