Description
Company Overview
Daintta are a rapidly growing, values-driven team of specialists who work with government clients across Cyber, Telecommunications and Data. We are seeking a talented and motivated Data Scientist to join our team and contribute to our mission of protecting the UK through data-driven insights and solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Working on client projects and providing subject matter expertise.
- Working in scrum-like environments for iterative and fail-fast' work and innovation.
- Working in cross-disciplinary teams.
- Assessing your clients' business and technical needs with the ability to identify opportunities for data science to be used and managing clients' stakeholders' relationship appropriately.
- Solving problems using data science techniques in a scientifically robust fashion.
- Identifying data sources that are relevant to client needs, related data science concepts that leverage those sources to aid the client.
- Working with various forms of data (e.g., unstructured, semi-structured or structured; text, time-series or image) and suitably modelling them (e.g., table, key-value pair, graph) for efficient data science use.
- Investigating and analysing data to see the wood from the trees' drilling down to the whys' of the data.
- Applying statistical and evidence-based techniques to inform insights and actions from the data.
- Communicating technical content at the right level both internally and to customers.
- Presenting to the client using data science tooling; investigating a story' of the data.
- Building maintainable code that uses existing libraries; implementing existing techniques or novel techniques.
- Designing, evaluating, implementing on-premise/cloud-based/hybrid machine learning techniques/algorithms (including reviewing/testing aspects; identifying risks; proposing/implementing mitigations).
- Developing scalable models/algorithms deployable into production environments.
- Applying ethical principles in handling data.
- Accurately delivering high-quality work within agreed timelines while taking initiative.
- Supporting client engagements including pitches/presentations.
- Helping support & grow Daintta by actively inputting into company strategy shaping our future.
- Representing us/core values: transparent, fair & daring.
Skills/Knowledge
- 2+ years degree-level industry experience in Data Science.
- Extensive degree-level experience in a STEM subject.
- Experience working in consultancy/engineering/data industry delivery across projects including analytics/security/proven technologies (e.g., Python).
- Experience working on cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Demonstrable continuous personal development & strong interpersonal skills required.
Experience using CI/CD tooling for code analysis/build/test/deployment required.
Experience with database technologies (SQL/NoSQL such as Elasticsearch & Graph databases).
Good understanding coding best practices/design patterns/code/data versioning/dependency management/code quality/error handling/logging/monitoring validation alerting.
Location
Hybrid position requiring 2–3 days working from Daintta office (London/Cheltenham) or on-site as needed.
What's In It For You?
You will be joining at Daintta "Consultant" grade rewarded fairly for contributions within an agile dynamic organization growing fast where you can drive shape future respected by everyone where your voice matters innovative creative opportunity learn all aspects business marketing sales delivery operations.
Security Information
Due nature position must be willing eligible achieve minimum SC clearance qualifying must be British Citizen have resided UK last 5 years more information about clearance eligibility please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting