Junior Data Scientist

Salary: £24,000 - 28,000 per year

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in a quantitative or technical field (e.g. Data Science, Computer Science, or Mathematics), or equivalent professional experience with a demonstrable programming background.
• 2+ years of experience working in a Data Science or adjacent role, with a track record of building programmatic solutions to data problems.
• Strong hands-on experience using Python and Pandas.
• Advanced text data proficiency, including practical experience with unstructured text data and techniques such as TF-IDF, entity extraction, string manipulation, Regular Expressions (Regex), text similarity metrics, and machine learning approaches such as clustering.
• Working knowledge of SQL to extract, manipulate, and query data efficiently.
• A meticulous approach to work, with a strong focus on accuracy.
• Ability to communicate technical data concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working autonomously, managing your own time, and building robust workflows in a small, growing team.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of manipulating, cleaning, and standardising raw, poorly transcribed datasets so they are structured and ready for downstream use.
• Work closely with genealogists to understand the nuances of historical records and translate their domain expertise into programmatic data science approaches.
• Use text processing and Natural Language Processing techniques to extract meaning, identify entities, and correct anomalies in messy OCR/transcription data.
• Independently verify your own work, stand behind your data outputs, explain your methodology, and iterate when results are questioned.

Technologies

• AI
• Machine Learning
• Python
• SQL
• pandas

More

We are hiring a Junior Data Scientist for a 6-month initial part-time contract, working 2 days per week with flexible hours. The role is remote and offers remuneration of £24,000 to £28,000 per annum for a two-day week. You will work alongside genealogist and AI engineer team-mates on unique, highly unstructured historical and genealogical data, helping us enhance, clean, validate, and structure records for genealogical research. This is an excellent opportunity for an autonomous early-career Data Scientist or freelancer seeking a regular, long-term project focused on real-world data quality challenges.

last updated 35 week of 2026