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Job description
Vodafone is hiring a Lead Data Scientist — a full-time, based in London, UK role. Apply directly on Vodafone's careers page below.
Lead Data Scientist
Location: London, United Kingdom
Department: Data & Analytics CoE.AI & ML
Work Location: onsite
Who we are
About this role
What you’ll do
- Frame customer, commercial and operational challenges as testable Data Science questions, defining outcomes, baselines, assumptions, decision thresholds and measures of value.
- Lead the development and validation of predictive, forecasting, propensity, anomaly and fraud, optimisation and causal models for prioritised use cases.
- Define appropriate experimental design, sampling approaches, feature strategies, evaluation methods and statistical tests based on the decision being supported and the available data.
- Lead modelling, experimentation and scientific validation, ensuring analytical approaches are proportionate to the problem and evidence available.
- Set and assure scientific standards for reproducibility, peer review, explainability, fairness, bias, uncertainty and model limitations.
- Evaluate model validity and recommend whether models should proceed, be redesigned or stop where sufficient validity or value cannot be established.
- Partner with Product, Data Engineering and ML & AI Engineering to ensure validated models are actionable and suitable for productionisation.
- Measure post-launch performance and real-world customer or business impact to establish whether deployed Data Science solutions are achieving their intended outcomes.
- Provide scientific input into data, tooling and experimentation choices.
- Support effective transition of scientifically validated models into reliable production environments while maintaining clear accountability between Data Science and ML/AI Engineering.
Who you are
- Extensive applied Data Science experience, including leadership of complex modelling and experimentation.
- Advanced Python capability and experience with relevant statistical and machine learning libraries.
- Advanced understanding of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, forecasting, causal inference and experimental methods.
- Experience selecting evaluation approaches, statistical tests, decision thresholds and validation techniques appropriate to different analytical problems.
- Strong understanding of model evaluation, calibration, explainability, fairness, bias, uncertainty and reproducibility.
- The scientific judgement to select proportionate approaches, communicate uncertainty clearly and recommend stopping or redesigning work where validity or measurable value cannot be demonstrated.
- Experience with cloud analytics and machine learning environments, preferably BigQuery and Vertex AI, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong working knowledge of production ML constraints and experience collaborating effectively with Data Engineers and ML & AI Engineers.
- The ability to convert customer, commercial and operational requirements into measurable analytical outcomes.
- Experience assessing deployed models against real-world customer or business outcomes.
- A postgraduate qualification in a quantitative discipline or equivalent depth of applied experience.
Not a perfect fit?
What's in it for you
- The opportunity to provide senior scientific leadership across Data Science and applied-model development.
- Work on customer, commercial and operational use cases spanning predictive modelling, forecasting, propensity, anomaly and fraud detection, optimisation and causal modelling.
- Influence whether Data Science use cases progress into production based on scientific validity, measurable value and real-world outcomes.
- Collaborate across Product, Data Engineering and ML & AI Engineering, helping connect scientific development with production-ready solutions.
- Shape scientific standards for responsible modelling, including reproducibility, explainability, fairness, bias and uncertainty.
- Work with cloud-based analytics and ML capabilities, including BigQuery and Vertex AI or equivalent technologies.
- Contribute to Data Science solutions designed to deliver measurable customer and business impact.
What skills you will learn
- Applied scientific leadership across complex Data Science and AI use cases.
- Advanced experimentation and causal inference, including experimental design, sampling, statistical evaluation and impact measurement.
- Responsible AI and model governance, with a focus on explainability, fairness, bias, uncertainty and reproducibility.
- Cloud-based Data Science and ML practices, including exposure to BigQuery and Vertex AI or equivalent environments.
- Production ML collaboration, working across Data Engineering and ML & AI Engineering to transition validated models into production.
- Post-launch model evaluation, connecting model performance with measurable customer and commercial outcomes.
- Business translation and scientific judgement, strengthening the ability to turn complex operational or commercial questions into testable hypotheses and evidence-based decisions.
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Frequently asked questions
What skills are required for Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone?
The required skills for Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone include: Python, Data Science, Machine Learning, Forecasting, BigQuery.
What is the seniority level for Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone?
Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone is a Senior / Lead level position.
How do I apply for Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone?
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