Lead Data Scientist

Salary: £100,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements

• We are looking for strong commercial experience in data science and machine learning.
• We need experience leading teams or acting as a technical lead within a data science function.
• We require strong knowledge of cloud platforms and machine learning deployment.
• We want experience delivering production-ready AI solutions.
• We are looking for excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• We lead technical decision-making across our data science function.
• We design, build, and deploy machine learning models into production.
• We drive NLP, generative AI, and LLM initiatives.
• We partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to solve complex business challenges.
• We mentor and develop a growing team of data scientists.
• We establish best practice across model development, governance, and MLOps.

Technologies

• AI
• Cloud
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• AWS
• Azure
• PyTorch
• Python
• SQL
• TensorFlow

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We are a global B2B SaaS organisation making significant investment in AI and data science as part of our next phase of growth. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity based in Cardiff or remote, with a remote-first working environment and strong backing from leadership. We offer the chance to help build and shape a growing data science function, influence our AI strategy, and work on highly visible projects with direct commercial impact across predictive analytics, NLP, and LLM-powered products.

last updated 26 week of 2026