Senior Data Scientist

As a Senior Data Scientist at Faculty, you will lead high-impact AI projects and shape bespoke solutions for public-sector clients. You’ll guide technical direction, design robust architectures, and mentor junior colleagues while building strong client relationships. You play a key role in delivering measurable, practical AI, contributing to thought leadership and ensuring delivery quality. This role sits within our Data Science / Public Services team and offers meaningful impact across government and public institutions.

• Lead project teams delivering bespoke AI solutions for clients
• Conceive core data science approaches and design robust software architectures
• Mentor junior data scientists and support technical growth
• Partner with commercial teams to shape project scope and feasibility
• Contribute to thought leadership through courses, talks, or open-source projects
• Ensure best practices across the project lifecycle for high-quality delivery

• Senior experience in data science or a quantitative academic field
• Fluent Python programmer with NumPy and Pandas; deep-learning with PyTorch
• Deep expertise in core data science paradigms (supervised/unsupervised, NLP, validation) and algorithm development
• Leadership mindset with focus on growing the team and collaborative culture
• Commercial awareness with client-facing experience and translating problems into mathematical frameworks
• Strong project planning skills, feasibility assessment, timeline estimation, and on-time delivery

• leadership
• collaboration
• client-facing communication
• Python
• NumPy
• Pandas