Amey

Senior Consultant, Data Scientist

Amey

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Working closely with clients to understand the challenges they face, shape these into well-defined requirements and provide analytical solutions
  • Developing approaches and analyses that can be transferred across different sectors, helping clients to make better use of their data and drive intelligent decision-making
  • Exploring new data sets to investigate how they can be used to realise value for clients
  • Developing unique solutions to new and unsolved problems in infrastructure by delivering themselves and/or managing small technical teams
  • Creating and developing relationships with high-profile clients up to director level
  • Opportunity to help with business development to gain new work and expand commissions
  • Collaborating with people from the wider team within the business unit, including software developers and domain experts, to form and support multi-disciplinary teams
  • Continually developing your skills and experience through a combination of formal and on-the-job learning
  • Developing personal expertise and support the development of fellow team members
  • Taking responsibility for the delivery of particular parts of projects to meet or exceed the expectations of the client
  • Ensure project work is delivered in compliance with the Project Control Framework and Technical Assurance Board to agreed standards and targets
  • Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental and Assurance regulations
  • Deputise for Principal Consultant, when required
  • Understanding, and support where requested, annual business objectives, plans and budgets for business area.
  • Operating according to One Amey principles and have a clear understanding of systems and processes
  • Working with others on the team to develop innovative solutions to challenging problems within the infrastructure sector either on existing commissions or by attracting research and development funding

Requirements

  • Technical Expertise Proven ability to contribute to fast-paced technical projects and quickly understand what needs to be done, even if it’s out of your area of expertise
  • Exposure to managing technical work and directing teams in data & analytics projects
  • Skilled in designing data driver solutions and implementing supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
  • Experience in model selection, tuning and validation
  • Strong grasp of statistical inference, hypothesis testing and experimental design.
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch.
  • Ability to interpret and explain complex analysis in simple terms to stakeholders and team members (expert and non-expert alike)
  • Self-sufficient in leveraging Python for end-to-end data science tasks from exploration and modelling to automation.
  • Experience/Familiarity with agile/scrum delivery.
  • Knowledge of Git or other version control systems, and experience using these tools in collaborative software projects
  • Good code hygiene, including modular design, refactoring and testing
  • You have a bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM subject (or equivalent portfolio/work experience)
  • You’ve obtained a good knowledge of cloud services e.g. AWS, Azure (desirable)
  • You have experience developing web applications for analytics solution (desirable)
Benefits
  • Career Development – Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones.
  • Work-life Balance – Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns.
  • Wellbeing – Health cash plan, 24 GP, support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers
  • Social Value – You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.
  • Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
  • Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
  • Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
  • Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data analysisdata driver solutionssupervised learningunsupervised learningmodel selectionmodel tuningstatistical inferencehypothesis testingexperimental designPython
Soft Skills
client relationship managementteam collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingbusiness developmentleadershipresponsibilityadaptabilityanalytical thinkingmentorship
Certifications
bachelor's degree in STEMequivalent portfolio/work experience