Senior Data Scientist
Full-time
ATS Client
Job Description
Our client is a global leader in the consumer beverages industry with a deep footprint across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. They are in the middle of an ambitious data and AI transformation - building a modern, cloud-native analytics platform and embedding machine learning, LLM-powered applications, and responsible AI into how the business makes decisions, engages customers, and runs commercial operations at scale.
Performance Objectives for Year One
Our client is a global leader in the consumer beverages industry with a deep footprint across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. They are in the middle of an ambitious data and AI transformation - building a modern, cloud-native analytics platform and embedding machine learning, LLM-powered applications, and responsible AI into how the business makes decisions, engages customers, and runs commercial operations at scale.
Performance Objectives for Year One
- Lead the end-to-end design, validation, and deployment of at least one production-grade ML or LLM solution that delivers measurable business value within the first 9 months.
- Define and embed best-practice standards for model validation, testing, monitoring, and governance across the data science team, including responsible AI and model risk management practices fit for a regulated production environment.
- Build and operationalise the team's LLM application stack - covering retrieval-augmented architectures, agentic workflows, tool integration, and robust evaluation, monitoring, and cost-optimisation practices.
- Partner with data engineering and platform teams to ensure ML and AI workloads are robust, scalable, and cost-effective on the cloud platform, preferably Azure / Databricks.
- Act as the technical sparring partner for the data science team - reviewing designs, challenging assumptions, and guiding technical decisions across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Mentor and uplift other data scientists, raising the team's standard in MLOps, statistical rigour, and production engineering, with demonstrable growth in at least two team members.
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago
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