Senior Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist
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Job Description
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-term Contract (12 months)
DEPARTMENT: BBC CCOG Audiences Data
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House or Salford Dock House Hybrid (2 days a week in the office on average).
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 59733 - 69733 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Fancy working on one of the largest media datasets in the world using a wide range of data sources and techniques
The BBC is a major stakeholder for industry leading audience measurement systems. Additionally our world-class online products (iPlayer News Sport Sounds and more) reach millions of audience members every week and create upwards of 1 billion rows of data per day.
As a data scientist youll create innovative models based on these datasets and help to answer questions about audience behaviour and shape the future of the BBC.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Working in a team of around 15 Data Scientists you will be involved in a wide variety of data and machine learning projects. You will be part of a wider team of highly skilled data professionals and engineers and interact regularly with researchers to contribute to high impact projects.
Youll have the opportunity to get involved with the wider data science community and further develop your skills through dedicated learning & development time.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
Select the appropriate statistical and algorithmic approach to solve a given problem including ad-hoc simple models proof of concepts as well as long term complex productionised models
Combine data from a variety of sources from digital activity to panel data using SQL to interact with our Cloud databases
Use our in-house data and machine learning platform programming in R or Python
Interact with stakeholders from a wide range of BBC departments present data and modelling insights and incorporate their feedback
Keep up to date with latest development in machine learning and generative AI promoting innovation best practices and standards across data science work within the team
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
A degree in mathematics statistics computer science econometrics data science or related field or equivalent work experience
A hands-on approach to problem solving from understanding the impact down to mathematical details
Experience interacting with stakeholders and translating business problems into practical technical solutions choosing the appropriate model or algorithm
Good programming skills with R or Python
Good working knowledge of SQL and experience querying large datasets
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
Experience in a commercial data role ideally within an agency consultancy or similarly varied role
Experience working with audiences activity or related online/panel data in a research marketing strategy or product environment
Experience building machine learning models to scale and deploying them into production
Experience working with large language models
If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
