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# Principal/ Senior Data Scientist - FDE

- **Company:** Microsoft
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £74,700.0 - £122,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Unstructured Data, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/58B4C22C8B0644ACBE512639EC4DF6F5/job/

## About the Role

* Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND demonstrated years of data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
 * OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND demonstrated years of data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
 * OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND demonstrated years of data science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
 * OR equivalent experience.
 * Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
 * Comfortable with travel up to 25% (role dependent).

## Description

* You will oversee acquisition of the data sets necessary for your project delivery and ensure data is properly formatted and described. You will address any gaps in current data sets, and drive ethics and privacy discussions around data collection and preparation.
 * You will evaluate your team's models using metrics tied to genuine business outcomes and recommend improvements as necessary, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale. You'll also conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques and identify and invent new evaluation methods.
 * You will research and maintain a deep knowledge of the industry, including trends and technologies, so that you can identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership in best practices. You'll also write extensible code that spans multiple features and develops expertise in proper debugging techniques.
 * You will define business, customer, and solution strategy goals, and partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities. You'll also commit to a customer-oriented focus by acknowledging their needs and offering customer pragmatic solutions that align with their data capabilities.
 * As the expert data scientist, you will also coach engineers and cross-disciplinary partners in data science best practices and scale knowledge within the cross discipline team.
 * You will embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) .


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