Data Scientist

Data ScientistLondon1 Day a Week In OfficeOutside IR35£400-£520 Per DayImmediate StartThe Company They are a data-driven organisation with a strong focus on using analytics to inform commercial and customer-focused decisions. Data and decision sciences play a central role across multiple functions, with close collaboration between analytics, finance and customer engagement teams. The business values robust, well-documented solutions that are actively used by stakeholders. This contract supports ongoing delivery and knowledge transfer within the data function.The Role and Deliverables

• Take ownership of an existing retention model, ensuring accuracy, reliability and ongoing business adoption.
• Review model performance, data dependencies and assumptions, documenting any changes made during the contract.
• Build and maintain clear reporting to provide visibility of model outputs and business impact.
• Work closely with lifecycle and engagement teams to embed model outputs into decision-making processes.
• Own and stabilise an existing anomaly detection solution, addressing bugs, gaps or reliability issues.
• Deliver clear handover documentation outlining model status, limitations and recommended next steps.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong experience building, maintaining and productionising data science and machine learning models.
• Confident working with Python in a modern analytics or data science environment.
• Solid SQL skills and experience using transformation frameworks such as dbt.
• Experience working with cloud-based data and ML platforms such as Databricks.
• Comfortable owning existing models, improving reliability and driving stakeholder adoption.
• Familiarity with version control using Git.
• Exposure to customer analytics, retention modelling or anomaly detection is beneficial.

How to Apply Apply below if you feel this contract would be a strong fit for your skills and experience.