Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Data Scientist
London
1 Day a Week In Office
Outside IR35
£400-£520 Per Day
Immediate Start
The Company
They are a data-driven organisation with a strong focus on using analytics to inform commercial and customer-focused decisions. Data and decision sciences play a central role across multiple functions, with close collaboration between analytics, finance and customer engagement teams. The business values robust, well-documented solutions that are actively used by stakeholders. This contract supports ongoing delivery and knowledge transfer within the data function.
The Role and Deliverables
- Take ownership of an existing retention model, ensuring accuracy, reliability and ongoing business adoption.
- Review model performance, data dependencies and assumptions, documenting any changes made during the contract.
- Build and maintain clear reporting to provide visibility of model outputs and business impact.
- Work closely with lifecycle and engagement teams to embed model outputs into decision-making processes.
- Own and stabilise an existing anomaly detection solution, addressing bugs, gaps or reliability issues.
- Deliver clear handover documentation outlining model status, limitations and recommended next steps.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience building, maintaining and productionising data science and machine learning models.
- Confident working with Python in a modern analytics or data science environment.
- Solid SQL skills and experience using transformation frameworks such as dbt.
- Experience working with cloud-based data and ML platforms such as Databricks.
- Comfortable owning existing models, improving reliability and driving stakeholder adoption.
- Familiarity with version control using Git.
- Exposure to customer analytics, retention modelling or anomaly detection is beneficial.
How to Apply
Apply below if you feel this contract would be a strong fit for your skills and experience.
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