About Faculty
At Faculty, we transform organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-centric AI.
With more than a decade of experience, we provide over 350 global customers with software, bespoke AI consultancy , and Fellows from our award winning Fellowship programme .
Our expert team brings together leaders from across government, academia and global tech giants to solve the biggest challenges in applied AI.
Should you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with, and learn from, some of the brilliant minds who are bringing Frontier AI to the frontlines of the world.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Faculty as the most senior data scientist in its recently formed Professional and Financial Services Team. As the Lead Data Scientist, you’ll have an opportunity to shape a technical vision and guide the senior and junior data scientists on your team. Working collaboratively, you will oversee project teams that deliver high-impact AI solutions that are differentiated and compelling. You will also lead project teams delivering enterprise-scale applications for a range of clients, including major banks, asset managers, insurers, law firms, and B2B services.
Maintaining ownership of the data science approach, you will own the technical vision for your projects, partner directly with clients to shape strategy, and play a crucial part in mentoring the next generation of data science talent at Faculty.
What you'll be doing
Project Leadership:
Team Mentorship:
Technical Leadership
Who we're looking for
You have deep technical expertise in machine learning and a command of diverse methodologies, with a solid grasp of data science and statistical techniques, for example: supervised/unsupervised machine learning, model cross-validation, Bayesian inference, and time-series analysis
An excellent proficiency of the basic libraries for data science (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn) and familiarity with a deep-learning framework (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Demonstrable experience enabling impactful change with AI within a financial services institution. Coupling that with prior experience in consulting would be a bonus.
You possess proven experience leading data science projects and making key decisions on technical direction and architecture.
You are an exceptional communicator, capable of building rapport with clients and translating complex ideas into clear, actionable insights.
You have a strategic mindset, with a grasp on key financial services sector trends that informs a compelling technical vision.
You are passionate about developing people and have experience mentoring or managing other technical professionals.
You are motivated to contribute to the wider data science community. We will actively support you in building your professional profile by speaking at major conferences, delivering courses, or contributing to open-source projects.
What we can offer you:
The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day.
Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals.
Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet.
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