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JOB TITLE Data Scientist
BUSINESS FUNCTION/ SUB-FUNCTION Data and Information
LOCATION London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds
Please note this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Role Purpose The Data Scientist with significant expertise will support the reporting and data‑led decision‑making for student and staff data. You will use techniques such as machine learning and artificial intelligence to build powerful data products that enhance decision‑making throughout our organisation. You will use your business acumen to understand our sector and business goals and discover opportunities where data science can have a positive impact.
As a great communicator, you’ll translate complex scientific and statistical techniques into compelling visions for organisational improvement. As a data scientist, you’ll develop high‑quality code and algorithms within GBS’s data and analytics platform and integrate them into business processes and day‑to‑day decision‑making.
Role And Responsibilities
Work closely with stakeholders within our university to understand their objectives. Use your expertise to identify opportunities where data science approaches can support our organisation.
Use a scientific approach to solve challenges that face GBS. Provide scientific data products to improve student outcomes, the student experience, and operational efficiency.
Build and fine‑tune machine learning models. Adopt a culture of continuous improvement, measuring and improving results through evaluation of the effectiveness of the models.
Effectively communicate findings to a range of stakeholders, including providing actionable insights that drive decision‑making.
Work closely with the Data Quality Manager and system owners to ensure the data is accurate and timely.
Adhere to our information security policies and ensure that you protect the use of our dataPro building ML pipelines with Python.
A knowledge of sampling techniques and their implications for analysis.
Drives and encourages continuous improvement and organisational change; positively embraces change and draws out new ideas, Result3>
Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Gathering
High stakeholder satisfaction from business units (registry, IT, Academic Services).
Clear and validated requirements identification of technical and compliance risks.
No major security incidents linked to architectural design.
Adherence to data protection best practices and institutional IT policies.
Other Information
To GBS values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
To GBS’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of GBS’s Environmental Policy.
To their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure a safe and secure working environment for staff, students and other visitors to the campus.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned.
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Languages
- English
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