Principal Data Scientist – Healthcare

🕒 November 18, 2025

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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📊 Data Scientist

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Kainos

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Accountable for the successful delivery of large-scale, high-impact AI solutions that leverage state-of-the-art machine learning, generative, and agentic AI technologies. • Help set the direction for AI and data science across the business, driving the adoption of modern AI development practices and scalable, cloud-native architectures at enterprise scale. • Provide technical and thought leadership, engaging with C-level and senior stakeholders to define architectural principles and strategic direction. • Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning and engineering excellence—both within Kainos and across the wider industry. • Lead, mentor, and develop a community of data scientists, AI engineers, and technical managers, ensuring the adoption of robust standards and responsible AI practices. • Build enduring customer relationships, proactively develop new alliances with technology partners and shape Kainos’ commercial AI offerings.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record of accountability for the delivery of complex, production-grade AI/ML solutions at scale. • Demonstrable experience of technical leadership in AI delivery. • Deep expertise in developing and assuring advanced AI/ML models, including time series, supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, LLMs and agentic AI. • Experience with the latest AI engineering approaches such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and orchestration of agentic AI systems. • Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data, and integrating non-traditional data sources. • Deep understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability and ethical considerations, with a track record of influencing policy and standards. • Ability to communicate and negotiate with C-level and senior stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into business value. • Experience in developing and executing account strategies, shaping commercial AI offerings and driving business development in partnership with sales and account managers. • Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams and wider AI and data science communities. • Strong commercial acumen with a history of influencing the commercial success of AI products and solutions.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities