Senior Data Scientist - Neural Net Forecasting - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain

About the role: This is a hands-on position where you will need to leverage your analytical mindset to find solutions to complex problems. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will need to understand difficult business problems and prototype solutions with minimal support.A core component of the role is applying, modifying, and designing algorithms and mathematical models to solve business problems using big data architectures (Hadoop, Spark, Cloud). In this role, your primary focus will be forecasting and related statistical or probabilistic modelling, with a strong emphasis on rigorous evaluation against robust baselines, careful validation, and scalable deployment.Our Data Scientists must be able to validate, document and present the modelling process and performance, as well as communicate complex solutions in a clear, understandable way to non-experts.Data Scientists are also responsible for promoting data science across Tesco and representing Tesco across the external Data Science community.Finally, as a Senior Data Scientist, you will be expected to drive innovation and take ownership of aspects of project development, support the Lead Data Scientist and Product Manager in managing relationships with business stakeholders, and mentor and supervise junior team members and interns.What is in it for you: We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more! Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary. Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus