Job Description

DIGITAL WORK
Proventeq is a Microsoft Preferred Partner for Content AI, Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work and Salesforce Consulting and AppExchange Partner, with a global customer base in more than 30 countries. We are a specialist provider of digital transformation solutions, focused on Microsoft 365, AI/Machine Learning and other latest technologies.




Our customers include UK, USA, UAE and Australian government departments as well as enterprises in wide range of domains including space, financial services, engineering, research, legal, manufacturing and more. Proventeq has headquarters in UK and offices in Dubai, India and USA. Despite our global footprint our nimble team retains a close-knit feel.



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The Role

The Data & AI Practice is pivotal in the modern data-driven business landscape. We are seeking an expert level Lead Data Scientist to join the Data & AI practice and play a key part in driving forward Proventeq's position in this market.




A high profile role, you'll join at an early stage of the development of the practice. Working with the Head of the Data & AI Practice, you will be a point of excellence for Data Science & AI, involved in delivering projects as well as other aspects; say 50% hands on and 50% management.
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Location

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Reading, UK

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Department

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Digital Work

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Experience required

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Data science/AI projects,

scope to delivery.

Cloud, ideally Azure & it's

AI products.

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Key Responsibilities

Direct data science/AI projects from scoping to delivery, to include consulting presales, discovery, demos, technical advisory, fuller development and production. Providing technical governance & leadership, management and guidance to other teams, Data architects & developers. Mentoring where appropriate. Leading internal innovation projects. Understanding of roles of neighbouring teams, e.g. data engineering, AI governance. Communicating complex ideas to non-technical customers. Able to balance multiple projects, internal and customer facing, and work in a dynamic and fast environment. Able to speak at Conferences. Possibly involved in bringing in new talent and defining training for the team. ###

Required Skills

A Bachelors / Masters in a Computer Science or related technical discipline. Technically competent in Data Science & AI with an understanding of it's path and development. Hands on project delivery, advising & delivering on customer solutions. Data science best-practice pipeline. Open and closed source experience. Agile/Waterfall understanding. Cloud, ideally Azure and its core AI products (Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry). Modelling: Expertise in at least 2 areas of AI, e.g. forecasting, NLP/NLM, vision. Experience with GenAI, particularly Language Models. Coding: Python for data science (DS). Low/no code approach to DS/AI IDEs & notebooks. Git & GitHub (or similar) Production: Serving to APIs, e.g. Streamlit, Dash Production particularly MLOps/LLMOps ###

Good To Have Skills

Fabric Copilot, Copilot Studio PySpark, R, Julia Databricks CRM familiarity, e.g. Salesforce Able to learn new skills on the fly, staying topical in a rapidly evolving field Innovating new products Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100) ###

What We Offer

Competitive salary plus discretionary performance bonus

Flexible working, open culture and opportunities for fast career progression

Private health insurance

Contributory Pension Scheme, Life Assurance

Rest up with 25 days' holiday per year
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Job Location

This role will be based at our Reading office in the UK; however, we offer a flexible hybrid working model.