Senior Consultant, Analytics Delivery, Assurance, Belfast, Derry/Londonderry

As part of our Data Analytics and AI team, the Data Scientist & AI role is pivotal in enabling our clients to derive significant value from their information assets. Through collaboration and domain expertise, our team embeds innovative data analytics solutions into existing business areas, transforming data into strategic assets. We are looking for a Data Scientist who is passionate about leveraging data to solve complex problems and drive business outcomes.

You will play a key role in driving growth by developing new and existing client relationships and delivering first-class customer experience on high-profile engagements.

The Data Analytics and AI team serve as trusted advisors, both practical and innovative, to embed innovative data analytics solutions into existing business areas and transforming data into strategic assets.

Working across all industries, you'll develop your career by communicating creative, strategic goals both internally and externally. As a Senior Consultant, the opportunity to assess and improve our clients' reporting policies and corporate governance processes will impact these ever-challenging areas during transformational and regulatory changes.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Big Data Analysis: The capability to analyse large and complex datasets to extract actionable insights. Your analytical skills will be key in identifying trends, patterns, and anomalies that can inform business strategies.
• Statistical Modeling: The ability to applying statistical techniques to extract insights, build predictive models, interpret data, and support data driven decision making.
• Machine Learning and AI Model End to End Management: The ability to build and manage the full lifecycle of ML models including development, validation, deployment, and monitoring in production environments.
• Collaboration: The ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy advanced machine learning models, ensuring alignment with business objectives and seamless integration into client operations.
• Communication: The skill to effectively communicate complex analytical findings and model results to stakeholders, translating data-driven insights into business language that informs decision-making.
• Continuous Learning: The ability to stay informed of the latest advancements in data science, including techniques and tools, to ensure our team remains at the cutting edge of the field.

• Experience: 3 years of hands-on experience in building and deploying machine learning or deep learning models in real-world applications.

• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Python, SQL, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.

• Programming: Solid experience in Python and SQL Experience with R is a nice-to-have.

• ML and AI: Practical experience using ML modeling libraries like Scikit-Learn, Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch and similar

• Generative AI: Some hands-on experience with LLMs for prompt engineering or agents is preferred

• Cloud Expertise: Building, deploying and monitoring models on cloud like Azure, AWS or GCP is preferred.

Foundational Knowledge: A strong foundation in statistics, mathematics, AI principles and programming is essential for success in this role.

Ideally, you will also have

• Problem-Solving: Ability to translate business assumptions and rules into feature engineering and model explainability, addressing business problems with data-driven solutions.
• Collaborative Development: Work under the guidance of senior data scientists and solution architects to build models that align with strategic visions and client needs.
• Data Pipeline Management: Be able to design, implement, and maintain data pipelines that are critical for model training and deployment. Your expertise will ensure the reliability and efficiency of our data infrastructure.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Pension
• Discounted health insurance
• Web Doctor - Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Free Gym membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Bike to work Scheme
• Recognition Awards
• Cash incentives for referrals
• Work Mobile
• TECH MBA paid by EY
• Wellness rooms Available in some offices

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