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We partner with government and law enforcement on some of the most challenging data and technology problems out there, and we're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our mission.\nWe strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to building an inclusive, safe and supportive environment that allows everyone to do their best work. We are happy to support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements that you may need during the recruitment process.\nAbout us:\nWe’ve been around for about ten years and grown from being a little-known tech start-up to creating our own community at the heart of Manchester’s thriving tech ecosystem.\nThe name Naimuri is Japanese and simply means…\n‘nai’ meaning ‘not’\n‘muri’ meaning ‘overburden’\nThis principle guides everything we do, from our technology and processes to our people and culture. 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We are passionate about continuous learning and fostering shared expertise within the team.\nData Scientists within our Data capability team are often working on:\nAnalysing customer requirements in long-term projects and new bid work to uncover opportunities for customers to leverage their data.\nAnalysing and modelling customer data, performing statistical analyses, designing cleansing, transformation and normalisation processes, performing feature extraction/reduction, and designing solutions and opportunities.\nPerforming, visualising, and presenting data analyses and analytics to customers and project leads, including on-site.\nEngineering platforms, databases, and data pipelines as part of broader delivery solutions.\nTraining (inc. transfer learning and feature extraction) and deploying ML/AI models for prediction, detection, classification, etc.\nWriting or supporting software solutions that implement data science models, tools, and techniques.\nAbout the role:\nAs a Senior Data Scientist, you will help maintain our strong reputation for delivering robust solutions by taking a conscientious and scientific approach to customer data. You will use your strong problem-solving skills to design and develop innovative techniques and tools in an agile manner. Working collaboratively with other data scientists, engineers, and developers, you will research, experiment, analyse and visualise complex data, presenting your findings to customers and colleagues.\nA key part of this role is mentoring and supporting earlier-career colleagues, helping to foster a culture of continuous learning and shared expertise across the team.\nYou will work closely with customers, other data scientists, data architects, data engineers, software developers, and testers to:\nInvestigate, transform (with provenance), and model customer data, and potentially create synthetic data in lieu.\nApply statistical methods to analyse customer data and be able to report that analysis to co-workers, customers, and project leads.\nIdentify opportunities to apply, design and build algorithms to transform and interrogate data.\nVisualise and communicate data and model and algorithm outputs for audiences of different levels of understanding.\nUse data science techniques, including ML/AI, to design and build solutions to customer problems, and work with software developers, data engineers and testers to implement and assure them.\nWork with data engineers and platform engineers to design, implement and test data ingest pipelines.\nWork with other data scientists and ML and platform engineers to design, train, test and deploy ML/AI models.\nTest and compare the effectiveness of different mathematical and computational techniques for working with data.\nConduct research into the application or development of new data science techniques, potentially collaborating with our expansive academic network, and co-supervising Masters and PhD candidates.\nExperiment design and execution/running, and communication of the experiment plan.\nAbout you\nWe're looking for someone who:\nHas significant industry experience as a data scientist and is passionate about data, with opinions on the best ways of working, techniques, and tooling.\nHas experience leading a team or project and wants to help others develop and learn.\nTakes a conscientious, curious, and scientific approach to their work.\nContinually learning about state-of-the-art techniques in technology, academic, and industry articles.\nPossesses strong analytical problem-solving abilities to design and develop innovative data science solutions.\nCan communicate and present complex ideas and findings to diverse audiences, including customers, executives, and non-specialists.\nHas performed deep dives into data and presented the results of analysis and modelling using tools like Jupyter Notebooks.\nHas experience designing and developing data ingestion and transformation pipelines in languages like Python, potentially using cloud solutions in AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nIs familiar with the full lifecycle of ML/AI models, including collating training data, design, training, evaluation, and deploying automated pipelines.\nHas experience helping to transform or implement an organisation's data science strategy.\nIs comfortable designing and executing experiment plans and communicating them to stakeholders.\nNice to haves:\nExperience with any of the following specialisms: Data Synthesis, Test and Evaluation, AI Assurance, Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies, Data Governance and Compliance, or Deepfake Detection.\nCreating Python-based applications and/or APIs.\nA degree in a field like data science, physics, computational science, mathematics, or statistics (though we value demonstrable experience just as much!).\nLocation:\nOur Head Office is based in Salford Quays, Manchester, with satellite teams currently in London and Gloucestershire. We offer hybrid working where you can work from home for part of your working week with time on site being based on the needs of your assigned delivery and agreed Ways of Working for your team. This would normally be a maximum of one or two days per week but you would be welcome to spend more days in the office if you preferred.\nPay and benefits:\nNaimuri pays competitively within the industry based on your role's base location rates. The salary for this position is dependent upon your experience. We assess seniority relative to the team at Naimuri during the interviewing process.\nA full time working week is 37.5 hours and you have flexibility over when you give that time. 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