The public sector client is looking to recruit a Data Scientist for a 6 month temporary contract, which is home-based. The successful candidate will have a valid DBS. Please Note: This assignment sits inside of IR35.

• Experience leading and delivering Data Science analyses and projects
• Ability to mentor data scientists in best practice
• Ability to work at pace to deadlines across multiple projects
• Ability to effectively communicate the results of analysis to senior stakeholders and decision makers
• Strong understanding and experience in applying statistics and data science techniques to real world problems

• Ability to troubleshoot and solve numerical and technical problems
• High attention to detail
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills evidenced through verbal and written means to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience with publishing data sets for visualisation and analysis
• Experience with supporting design of data models / data flows
• Experienced working in Agile teams

Experience cleaning data for machine learning projects
• Ability to write functions and understandable object orientated code
• Understanding of software best practice, including confident use of version control using platforms such as Github

• Provide analysis and assessment
• Set Provide Local Authorities, Directors of clients network with analysis
• Compile evidence, including area and population context, influencers, early signals,
• Create live dashboards to present data and analysis,
• Engage with partners in wider government, academia and the private sector to gain access to new data sources and information

• Strong experience with Python, SQL, Spark, AWS and/or R for Data Science including the core scientific Python stack (pandas, numpy, matplotlib etc) and/or R stack (ggplot2, tidyverse etc)