Data Scientist - 3 days per week in Hounslow - Market rates - Inside IR35
My client is a global leading IT consultancy. They are on the hunt for a true data scientists with optimisation expertise or experience.
Purpose: This role is responsible for developing industrialised optimisation and machine learning models as part of a full-stack product squad that delivers operations decision-support software.
Operational research and optimisation experience is a must have.
Skills/capabilities
1. Strong knowledge of either machine learning and optimisation techniques, incl. supervised (regression, tree methods, etc.), unsupervised (clustering) learning, and operations research (linear, mixed integer programming, heuristics)
2. Fluent in Python (required) and other programming languages (preferred) with strong skills in applying DS, ML, and OR packages (scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, gurobi etc.) to solve real-life problems and visualise the outcomes (eg seaborn)
3. Proficient in working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), code versioning (Git), experiment tracking (eg MLflow)
4. Experience with cloud-based ML tools (eg SageMaker), data and model versioning (eg DVC), CI/CD (eg GitHub Actions), workflow orchestration (eg Airflow/Dagster) and containerised solutions (eg Docker, ECS) nice to have
5. Experience in code testing (unit, integration, end-to-end...