Data Scientist - AI & Advanced Analytics

Skip to content IBM < Back to search results Data Scientist - AI & Advanced Analytics London, Hursley, Leicester, Manchester, Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester, United Kingdom Professional Email X LinkedIn Apply now Introduction At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.We offer:Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners schemeMore traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice. In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. Your role and responsibilities As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a leading role in the design and delivery of advanced data science and artificial intelligence solutions across a range of client engagements. You will work on complex, real world data problems across public sector and financial services clients, applying statistical, machine learning, and AI techniques to drive measurable outcomes.AI and machine learning will form a significant element of your work, alongside broader advanced analytics, decision science, and data driven insight generation.Core Responsibilities•    Lead the design, development, and deployment of data science and AI solutions across multiple client projects•    Apply statistical modelling, machine learning, and advanced analytics techniques to structured and unstructured data•    Deliver AI enabled solutions, including exposure to foundation models, large language models, or other applied AI approaches where appropriate•    Translate ambiguous business problems into well defined analytical use cases and solution designs•    Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development, validation, and evaluation•    Work closely with data engineers, platform teams, architects, and stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle•    Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior data scientists, contributing to team capability building and best practice•    Support technical decision making, including trade offs around accuracy, interpretability, scalability, cost, and operational risk Required education None Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise •    Strong proficiency in Python and experience with data science and machine learning libraries (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, scikit learn)•    Practical experience applying machine learning or advanced analytics in a professional delivery environment•    Exposure to AI frameworks...