Lead Data Scientist

THE IDOLS GROUP LIMITED London Permanent Published: 7 hours ago £120000 - £140000 per annum
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 140K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Python
Machine Learning
SQL Databases
Data Management

Job description

They are now hiring a Lead Data Scientist to take full ownership of their data ecosystem and help shape how the company operates, measures success, and makes decisions. You will own the data stack end-to-end and work at the intersection of analytics, engineering, and applied machine learning.

The Opportunity

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you will design, build, and scale the company's entire data capability from ingestion through to insight and prediction.

You'll work closely with senior leadership, product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, ensuring data is reliable, real-time, and genuinely useful. You'll turn messy, fast-moving problems into automated, production-grade systems that inform product strategy, customer behaviour, and operational decisions.

If you enjoy building from first principles, moving fast, and taking real ownership, this role offers an unusually broad scope and level of influence.

Requirements

  • Strong Python for pipelines and analysis
  • Advanced SQL and hands-on dbt experience
  • Experience building data platforms from scratch in a fast-growth environment
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, changing priorities, and tight timelines
  • Confident using AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow
  • Excellent communication skills

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