Data Scientist (GenAI)

Starling Bank
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
19 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate

Job location

Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Continuous Integration
Python
Machine Learning
Software Engineering
Large Language Models
Generative AI
Machine Learning Operations

Job description

  • Build, test and deploy machine learning models which will improve and/or automate decision making.
  • You will be part of a team delivering data driven solutions and insights to improve the speed, efficiency, and quality of decision-making.
  • Work proactively with technical and non-technical teams to deliver insights to support the wider business.
  • Implement comprehensive model monitoring.
  • Develop model training and evaluation pipelines to accelerate model development / deployment adhering to software development best practices (CI/CD & MLOps)
  • Engage with Engineering teams to ensure we capture data points that are relevant and useful for insights and modelling.

Requirements

Aws, Data Science, Bedrock, Python, Model Development, * You have at least 3-4 years of experience as a professional Data Scientist

  • Python, which makes up the majority of our Data Science stack.
  • Proven experience in data science, with a focus on machine learning model development/Large Language Model (LLM) application development.
  • Experience deploying Generative AI applications to production in GCP (VertexAI) or AWS (Bedrock).
  • Demonstrable experience monitoring the performance and output quality of generative models, including assessing/mitigating hallucinations and coherence of generated content.

Benefits & conditions

  • 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
  • An extra day's holiday for your birthday
  • Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Incentives refer a friend scheme
  • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About the company

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time. Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We're a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices. Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working WWe have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week. Our Data Environment Our Data teams are aligned to divisions covering the following Banking Services & Products, Customer Identity & Financial Crime and Data & ML Engineering. Our Data teams are excited about delivering meaningful and impactful insights to both the business and more importantly our customers. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech. We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

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