Play a crucial role in leveraging data to extract valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making at this leading UK digital provider.

THE COMPANY

Our client is a leading digital provider to the media industry; monitoring and analysing the digital presence of movies and TV shows across various streaming platforms to optimise their visibility and performance.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for leveraging data to extract valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making within the organisation.

Key responsibilities:

Lead the development and delivery of the data roadmap for the business.
Monitor and work closely with existing Data Scientists to enable them to develop their skills and grow their expertise.
Formulate and test hypotheses, providing actionable recommendations based on analysis results.
Conduct exploratory data analysis to understand patterns, trends, and anomalies in large datasets.
Build predictive models to forecast trends and outcomes, contributing to strategic decision-making.
Develop and implement machine learning algorithms to solve specific business problems.
Lead activity to catalogue data workflows and improve data quality.
Work with internal and customer teams to define data requirements for data science activities.
Proactively identify potential data capture issues and work with the wider team to resolve them.

THE PERSON

As an experienced data scientist, you will need significant and demonstrable experience delivering Data Science projects to enable business impact using:

Python programming language and using libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, MLLib and scikit-learn and IDE such as Jupyter Notebooks.
Statistical and machine learning techniques such as Gradient Boost, A/B testing, clustering and time series analysis.
AWS with analytical tool sets such as Athena and Sagemaker and experience of data engineering and analytical workflows.

It is important that you either hold a BSc in Science, Maths, Computing or a Master’s/Ph.D in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related disciplines.

Lastly, you should have experience in delivering analytics in a high-growth, scale-up environment.

NEXT STEP

If your skills & experience fit the above requirements and you would like to talk to us about this role, please apply online attaching your CV in WORD format.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Searchlight only advertises active roles.
Your details will be sent directly to the Consultant who is handling this role.
We aim to respond to candidates within 14 days.

If this role isn’t quite right, but you would like us to have your CV on file, please send it to sroffice@searchlight.com.

Searchlight strives to promote equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

To learn more about Searchlight, see: www.searchlight.com.

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