Description:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Consultant Data Scientist to join our Digital, Data and Technology Team within our Consulting Business Unit.
Amey Consulting is a leading consultancy that drives innovation through data and technology, enhancing our clients' business operations and processes. We provide solutions that drive insights, improve decision-making, and define a digital strategy that supports our client’s vision, transforming and enabling them to become leaders in a rapidly changing technology and data landscape.
As a Senior Consultant, you will be aspiring leader within our DDaT team and will work alongside an experienced pool of other Data Scientists, solution architects, product owners, project managers, business analysts, software developers and AI experts, among others.
You Will Be Responsible For
- Working closely with clients to understand the challenges they face, shape these into well-defined requirements and provide analytical solutions
- Developing approaches and analyses that can be transferred across different sectors, helping clients to make better use of their data and drive intelligent decision-making
- Exploring new data sets to investigate how they can be used to realise value for clients
- Developing unique solutions to new and unsolved problems in infrastructure by delivering themselves and/or managing small technical teams
- Creating and developing relationships with high-profile clients up to director level
- Opportunity to help with business development to gain new work and expand commissions
- Collaborating with people from the wider team within the business unit, including software developers and domain experts, to form and support multi-disciplinary teams
- Continually developing your skills and experience through a combination of formal and on-the-job learning
- Developing personal expertise and support the development of fellow team members
- Taking responsibility for the delivery of particular parts of projects to meet or exceed the expectations of the client
- Ensure project work is delivered in compliance with the Project Control Framework and Technical Assurance Board to agreed standards and targets
- Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental and Assurance regulations
- Deputise for Principal Consultant, when required
- Understanding, and support where requested, annual business objectives, plans and budgets for business area.
- Operating according to One Amey principles and have a clear understanding of systems and processes
- Working with others on the team to develop innovative solutions to challenging problems within the infrastructure sector either on existing commissions or by attracting research and development funding
What You Will Bring To Us
Technical Expertise
- Proven ability to contribute to fast-paced technical projects and quickly understand what needs to be done, even if it’s out of your area of expertise
- Exposure to managing technical work and directing teams in data & analytics projects
- Skilled in designing data driver solutions and implementing supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
- Experience in model selection, tuning and validation
- Strong grasp of statistical inference, hypothesis testing and experimental design.
- Familiarity with ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch.
- Ability to interpret and explain complex analysis in simple terms to stakeholders and team members (expert and non-expert alike)
- Self-sufficient in leveraging Python for end-to-end data science tasks from exploration and modelling to automation.
- Experience/Familiarity with agile/scrum delivery.
- Knowledge of Git or other version control systems, and experience using these tools in collaborative software projects
- Good code hygiene, including modular design, refactoring and testing
- You have a bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM subject (or equivalent portfolio/work experience)
- You’ve obtained a good knowledge of cloud services e.g. AWS, Azure (desirable)
- You have experience developing web applications for analytics solution (desirable)
Project Controls
- Demonstrated expertise in balancing financial and technical requirements to ensure successful project management outcomes.
- Proven experience in leading and managing small to medium teams to deliver projects effectively and efficiently.
- Skilled in building strong client/stakeholder relationships and providing customer-focused solutions that address key client needs and deliver maximum value.