Senior/Lead Data Scientist

Salary: £46,000 - 86,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience building and deploying production-grade machine learning models at scale that deliver measurable business impact
• Experience with churn prediction, customer segmentation, Next Best Action or recommendation systems, and time series forecasting
• Strong Python skills
• Databricks exposure
• Experience in production ML or MLOps environments

Responsibilities:

• Solve commercial business problems using data and machine learning
• Bridge technical delivery and business impact

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Databricks
• Machine Learning
• MLflow
• MLOps
• Python
• SQL
• Network

More:

We are working with a major UK digital business undergoing a significant Data & AI transformation. This is a Senior/Lead Data Scientist contract opportunity based in Central Manchester, with hybrid working and an outside-IR35 arrangement. The day rate is dependent on experience. Our technology stack includes Python, SQL, Databricks, MLflow, CI/CD, and modern ML pipelines.

last updated 40 week of 2026