Job Description
Job Title: Lead Data Scientist (AI)
Employment Type: Temporary
Length of Contract: 7 months
Pay: 600 650 per day (Inside IR35
Location: London
Sector: Public Sector
Our client a large public sector organisation based in London is looking for an immediately available Lead Data Scientist (AI) for a 7 month contract.
The role sits within the Artificial Intelligence team and as Lead Data Scientist you will be supporting the team including principal technologists engagement leads and a delivery manager to:
- Support the delivery of the 10year intent and strategy for your team in the adoption of AI across the Public Sector
- Document best practice through the intricate realms of Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP/NLU) machine learning and experimental design.
- Identify efficient and effective ways to use advanced analytics data science and automation to tackle business and organisational challenges.
- Steer technical teams in datadriven projects in tandem with delivery and product managers delineating project scopes and using your time efficiently. Ensure that projects not only provide technical solutions but also deliver business value.
- Act as a digital ambassador sponsoring AI/ML adoption best practices and collaboration and help upskill others in wider AI adoption
The successful candidate will possess the following:
- experience in data science and machine learning
- understanding of AI algorithms and their use cases
- understanding of the data processing pipeline
- knowledge of retrieval augmented generation and finetuning
- understanding of data pipelines and their unique versioning requirements.
- deep knowledge of evaluation metrics and test metrics
- deep knowledge of LLMs GenAI and Foundation Models in general
- understanding of the short and medium term developments in AI/ML.
- understanding of LLM vulnerabilities safeguards guardrails and security.
- experience with profiling and performance optimisation of AI/ML systems.
For more information please contact John Lavictoire Director