Lead Data Scientist – Public Sector, Security Cleared

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🕒 May 16

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Kainos

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 1986-04

Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics

Kainos is a technology company focused on solving real problems for its customers and enhancing business operations through innovative IT solutions. With specialties in Enterprise Content Management, Application Management Services, Systems Integration, and Digital Transformation, Kainos serves clients across various sectors including healthcare, commercial, and the public domain. Their emphasis on building strong relationships and delivering impactful solutions is reflected in their two main business areas: Digital Services and Workday Practice, aimed at improving the lives of people and the functionality of organizations globally.

📋 Description

• Architect, design, and deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning , generative and agentic AI technologies. • Drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AI Ops best practices and scalable cloud-native architectures. • Provide hands-on technical leadership , collaborating with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions and ensuring responsible AI practices throughout. • Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. • Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development. • Provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or in a similar quantitative field. • Have a deep understanding and developing of AI/ML models, including time series, supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and LLMs. • Experience with the latest AI engineering approaches such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG ), and agentic AI. • Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews etc). • Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data. • Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations. • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead client projects and establish requirements in non-technical language. • Must have active UK Government Security Clearance.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities