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Principal Data Scientist - FDE

United Kingdom, Berkshire, Reading💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Oversee data acquisition and formatting, drive ethics/privacy in data collection, evaluate models against business outcomes, develop operational models at scale, and define strategy goals for customer solutions.

Role type

Principal Data Scientist (Strategy & Delivery)

Builds

Operational models, data pipelines, and customer-aligned data solutions

Domain

Data Science, Statistics, and Customer Consulting

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis | client delivery

Required skills

Data acquisition and formatting, statistical techniques, model evaluation, strategy definition, customer partnership, team coaching, extensible code development, debugging

Preferred skills

Industry trend analysis, thought leadership, cross-disciplinary collaboration

Technologies

Structured and unstructured data management tools

Responsibilities

Oversee data set acquisition and ensure proper formatting/description, address data gaps, drive ethics and privacy discussions, evaluate team models using business outcome metrics, develop operational models at scale, coach engineers and partners on best practices, define business and solution strategy goals, partner with teams to explore new opportunities

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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