Lead Data Scientist

Job Description
Lead Data Scientist | £85-95k | Gambling | Hybrid Leeds or Newcastle
If you're a Lead Data Scientist who wants to work for one of THE best and fastest growing Data functions in this sector then you'll want to check this out...
About the business
G.Digital has partnered with this organisation in the online gaming space who are revolutionising the game playing experience! From being one of the only cloud native operators, to creating all of their products in house they're incredibly focused on the user experience end to end
They've worked on strategies to keep players safe, grown from 10 to over 400 employees and expanded into a handful of countries and now they're looking to building a data science capacity to deliver high-impact work around the UK and Europe!
Why did we choose to work with them?
✅ Investing heavily in their Tech and Product teams
✅ Remote first and great work life balance
✅ Brand new Data Science practice
✅ Working on a number of new Greenfield projects
✅ Big on L&D
About the role ‍
The Head of Data has been building appetite and use cases for Data Science and ML over the last 9 months and now are in a position to deliver this work.
You'll be responsible for a number of different things including:
Delivering on the aims related to a wider Data Strategy
Integrating recommender data science models to increase NGR
Nurturing the Science function and growing a team by the end of the year
Focusing on improving Data retention
Gain a more in depth understanding of regulatory compliance & reporting
Enhance your skills and lead a function using your expertise in developing ML models
And outside of the day-to-day projects:
Staying on top of industry developments within the business and the Data Science community
R&D/Product Development - developing new data science offerings and use cases
Establishing and implementing best practice
Mentoring and coaching other team members
What you need
Commercial experience applying ML models
Python, SQL or R
Any cloud data platforms would be great - AWS, Azure or GCP
Any big data technologies like Hadoop would be great
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
What’s on offer to you?
£85-95k
Bonus of up to 10%
Flexible working (core hours)
Private health
8% Pension
Life Assurance
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Lead Data Scientist | £85-95k | Gambling | Hybrid Leeds or Newcastle