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Kainos

Lead Data Scientist – Public Sector, Security Cleared

Kainos

Lead Data Scientist role focusing on AI solution delivery in public sector. Collaborating with clients and leading teams to solve complex challenges in technology.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Architect, design, and deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning , generative and agentic AI technologies.
  • Drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AI Ops best practices and scalable cloud-native architectures.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership , collaborating with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions and ensuring responsible AI practices throughout.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
  • Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development.
  • Provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or in a similar quantitative field.
  • Have a deep understanding and developing of AI/ML models, including time series, supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and LLMs.
  • Experience with the latest AI engineering approaches such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG ), and agentic AI.
  • Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews etc).
  • Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data.
  • Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead client projects and establish requirements in non-technical language.
  • Must have active UK Government Security Clearance.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learninggenerative AIagentic AIAI frameworksAI Opscloud-native architectureAI/ML modelsPythondata engineeringprompt engineering
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationinnovationcontinuous learningengineering excellencecoachingperformance managementproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillsclient project leadership