Faculty is hiring a Lead Data Scientist to take a pivotal, entrepreneurial role, functioning as the technical expert who thrives on complexity and commercial impact. You will be responsible for setting the technical direction and ensuring the high-quality, scalable delivery of our most challenging, high-impact projects.
What You'll Do
- Set the technical direction for complex, business-critical projects, expertly balancing trade-offs between speed, innovation, and reliability.
- Design and implement reliable, production-grade technical solutions, ensuring comprehensive documentation of architectures and specifications.
- Define project problems, develop clear roadmaps, and oversee end-to-end delivery across multi-disciplinary workstreams.
- Lead technical scoping and feasibility studies for high-value sales opportunities and strategic customer engagements.
- Manage relationships and communications with demanding clients, fostering trust and aligning technical solutions with shared long-term commercial goals.
- Drive the adoption of best practices, shared resources, and robust technical processes across the wider Data Science craft.
- Mentor and develop other data scientists and team members, actively contributing to the growth and technical excellence of the organisation.
What We're Looking For
- Depth of expertise in at least one machine learning domain and strong technical breadth across the entire data science landscape.
- A skilled technical leader, proficient in mentoring individuals, managing teams (including other managers), and rolling out impactful tools and workflows.
- Proven project management expertise, capable of dividing complex, ill-defined problems into actionable, clearly defined workstreams with defendable timelines.
- Adept at managing ill-defined, high-risk tasks, consistently delivering innovative and practical outcomes under commercial pressure.
- Strong customer leadership skills, able to act as a trusted technical advisor and drive long-term strategic relationships with demanding clients.
- Excel at cross-functional collaboration, effectively aligning technical strategy with Engineering, Commercial, and Infrastructure teams.
- Experience extending technical oversight to business unit-level initiatives, using your vision to influence and contribute to organisational success.
Team & Environment
Our Defence team is focused on building and embedding human-centered AI solutions which give our nation a competitive edge in the defence sector.
Benefits & Compensation
- Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
- Private healthcare and dental
- Enhanced parental leave
- Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
- Sanctus Coaching
- Hybrid Working (2 days in our Old Street office, London)
Work Mode
This role operates on a hybrid basis from the UK.
We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.
