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# Lead Data Scientist

- **Company:** Gymshark
- **Location:** Solihull, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cluster Analysis, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Standard Sql, Software Deployment, SQL Databases
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eu.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/lead-data-scientist-solihull-grossbritannien-58832230

## About the Role

_ Mentor data scientists on complex challenges * Partner with Data Architecture, ML & Data Engineering, and BI teams to ensure scalable, production-ready solutions * Evaluate new techniques and tools and guide their pragmatic adoption * Communicate technical assumptions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders * Maintain strong stakeholder partnerships and raise the technical maturity of data science within the organization Tasks * Extensive experience delivering production-grade, commercially impactful data science solutions * Senior technical lead, reviewer, or technical sign-off authority * Strong experience building ML solutions on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) * Advanced expertise in Python and SQL * Deep knowledge of ML techniques (regression, classification, clustering, time-series forecasting) * Experience supporting production deployment and lifecycle management of ML models * Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modelling, and modern a
SQL architecture * Excellent communication skills for non-technical stakeholders Key requirements * Performance-based Bonus * Funded Healthcare benefit * 25 days holiday + birthday and bank holidays * Contributory Employer pension scheme * Flexible benefits programme * Gymshark Employee Discount

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you will provide technical leadership for data science, ensuring production-ready ML solutions align with business priorities. You will guide modelling and solution design across initiatives, mentor teams, and implement standards for reproducibility and deployment. You'll collaborate with architecture, ML & Data Engineering, and BI to ensure scalable, reliable outcomes, while elevating the organization's data science maturity. This is a high-impact position at a fast-growing company shaping its data-driven capabilities. Pay / Benefits * Act as technical lead for data science across multiple initiatives * Translate priority use cases into production-ready data science solutions * Provide hands-on leadership across the data science lifecycle (framing, modelling, deployment, optimization) * Define and embed technical standards for experimentation, validation, and reproducibility * Review and challenge technical designs, providing direction and sign-off * Mentor data scientists on complex challenges * Partner with Data Architecture, ML & Data Engineering, and BI teams to ensure scalable, production-ready solutions * Evaluate new techniques and tools and guide their pragmatic adoption * Communicate technical assumptions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders * Maintain strong stakeholder partnerships and raise the technical maturity of data science within the organization Tasks * Extensive experience delivering production-grade, commercially impactful data science solutions * Senior technical lead, reviewer, or technical sign-off authority * Strong experience building ML solutions on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) * Advanced expertise in Python and SQL * Deep knowledge of ML techniques (regression, classification, clustering, time-series forecasting) * Experience supporting production deployment and lifecycle management of ML models * Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modelling, and modern data architecture * Excellent communication skills for non-technical stakeholders Key requirements * Performance-based Bonus * Funded Healthcare benefit * 25 days holiday + birthday and bank holidays * Contributory Employer pension scheme * Flexible benefits programme * Gymshark Employee Discount


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