At a Glance
- Tasks: Acquire data, build models, and deliver insights in a customer-focused environment.
- Company: Join Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering, a leader in tech innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, potential bonuses, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Must obtain Security Check clearance; travel required approximately 25%.
- Why this job: Make a real impact with your data skills while working on exciting projects.
- Qualifications: Degree in Data Science or related field; experience with data management and analysis.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 122600 £ per year.
Overview
Senior Data Scientist – Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering.
The role focuses on acquiring data, building models, and delivering actionable insights to customers while operating in a customer‑directed environment.
Responsibilities
- Acquire necessary data for project plans and develop usable datasets for modeling.
- Update internal best practices for data collection and preparation, and contribute to data integrity conversations with customers.
- Evaluate team models, recommend improvements, and drive best practices for model development.
- Develop operational models that run at scale and conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques.
- Identify and invent new evaluation methods to improve model quality.
- Maintain deep industry knowledge, including trends and technologies, to identify strategy opportunities and contribute thought leadership.
- Write extensible code that spans multiple features and develop expertise in proper debugging techniques.
- Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals and partner with other teams to explore new opportunities.
- Apply a customer‑oriented focus to understand needs and help drive realistic expectations.
Qualifications
- Security Check (SC) clearance or ability to obtain it, as issued by the United Kingdom Security Vetting Unit (UKSV).
Must meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or Doctorate degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Data‑science experience, including managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques, and reporting results.
- Demonstrated experience or strong interest in working in customer‑facing environments.
- Comfortable with a travel requirement of approximately 25%.
Benefits
Competitive base pay ranging from £74,700.00 to £122,600.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for additional benefits and compensation.
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