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Lead Data Scientist

Employer
Aviva
Location
Norwich
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
21 Aug 2022

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This is a tremendous opportunity to establish a Data Science Centre of Excellence within the IT data platform at Aviva.

As the Lead Data Scientist, you will be supporting business data science teams in their use of the tooling and using the IT supported data science tools, to identify opportunities and unlock actionable insight leading to successful business and technology outcomes.

The Data Science Platform Team within Aviva supports hundreds of data scientists in teams across the business, provisioning and supporting tools such as Dataiku, Data Robot and RStudio.

A bit about the job
  • Work closely with IT teams to identify issues and use data to propose solutions for effective decision making within the IT domain (cyber security, network performance, application monitoring and stability, incident management to name a few)
  • Use machine learning tools and statistical techniques to produce solutions to problems
  • Test and validate model performance
  • Provide SME support in the use of our data science tools to both the business and IT community, driving out efficiency, capability and best practice
  • Work with tooling vendors to get the most out of products features and inform product roadmaps

A bit about your experience
  • Data Science fundamentals e.g. data prep, feature engineering, model validation, etc
  • Extensive experience in a specific area of ML algorithms/technology
  • Programming - fluency in Python/R, with the ability to build best practice ML pipelines
  • Industry experience - worked with real world data, deployed ML solutions to production
  • Identified, proposed and delivered an impactful machine learning project

What will you get for this role
  • Salary £45,000 - £55,000 (Non-London rate) and £55,000 - £65,000 (London rate) depending on skills, experience, and qualifications
  • A generous defined contribution pension scheme
  • Annual performance related bonus and pay review
  • A holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  • Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through "My Aviva Extras" plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)
  • Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds.

Excited, but not sure you tick every box?

Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.

Most of our people are smart working - spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Nicola Janneh a call on 07789 624461 or send an email to Nicola.Janneh@Aviva.com .

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