Data Scientist

Data Scientist London, England

Pearson
Full Time London, England 34036 - 49338 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Name of role: Data Science Engineer

Reports to: Head of Enterprise Tooling & Data Science

Location: (United States), (United Kingdom))

The Data Science Engineer will be responsible for developing and manging existing models, dashboards, and operational metrics.

You will bring proficiency in leveraging technologies such as Power BI to surface critical metrics, trending of the estate and informing service improvement & change developments.

Working within the Data Science function you will evangelise the art of leveraging data to inform priorities, leveraging the collectively team to identify additional data points enriching existing models and dashboards and as created build new.

The candidate will be of a progressive mindset, experienced working in Agile, this is an amazing opportunity to join a newly created function with the purpose of increasing operational efficiencies, automating existing manual process and as we develop work with Automation and other engineering teams in the introduction of AI (Artificially Intelligent) & ML (Machine Learning) to self-heal and proactively optimise the colleague eco system

Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Build, maintain and develop operational real time dashboards
  • Identify opportunities to automate existing manual data production processes
  • Work within squads to leverage data as a means of pro-active change
  • Identify trends and causes of positive and negative drivers
  • Leadership of the teams' activities ensuring alignment with functional & divisional strategy
  • Evangelise data driven decisions, influencing business strategy to drive improvements
  • Practice continuous learning through attending company and/or industry training.

Skills and Abilities:

  • knowledge of PowerBI and 365 data points (Graph API etc)
  • Ability to identify and surface additional data sources.
  • Skilled in leveraging metrics to drive service & change improvement
  • Ability to coach and develop direct reports to maximise their capabilities
  • Experience of building data models to demonstrate “what if” scenarios
  • Ability to take ownership and drive outcomes
  • Experience of working within the Microsoft 365 eco system

Core Competencies:

  • Leveraging PowerBi to build operational dashboards & model trends
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience of working within the 365 ecosystems
  • Passion for surfacing data, modelling and driving improvements
  • Inquisitive in nature, championing the “art of possible”
  • Ability to collaborate across globally dispersed teams.
  • A passion for modelling and driving service improvement through data
  • Ability to anticipate and identify new and emerging requirements

Educational & Professional Qualifications:

We want the best Engineers; Professional qualifications are a distinct advantage, however if you are the best of the best and bring extensive knowledge and practical demonstratable experience we welcome your application.

Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL\_TIME

Req ID: 10378

Data Scientist
Pearson

plc.pearson.com
London, United Kingdom
Andy Bird
$5 to $10 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Publishing
1844
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