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Lead Data Scientist - Public Sector (security cleared)

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-04 → 2026-07-25

Core

Architect, design, and deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging machine learning, generative, and agentic AI for government, healthcare, and defence sectors.

Role type

Lead Data Scientist (Technical Lead & Mentor)

Builds

Production-grade AI solutions, scalable cloud-native architectures, and trustworthy AI systems.

Domain

Public Sector (Government, Defence, Healthcare) + AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning (time series, supervised/unsupervised, reinforcement learning), LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic AI, Python, software engineering (CI/CD, testing), data engineering for large-scale/unstructured/multimodal data, responsible AI principles, model interpretability, team management and coaching.

Preferred skills

Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), LLM fine-tuning/distillation, vector databases, semantic search, knowledge graphs, open-source AI contributions, AI security/privacy/compliance (ISO42001).

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LLMs (GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini), RAG, vector databases, knowledge graphs.

Responsibilities

Translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions, drive adoption of modern AI frameworks and AIOps best practices, manage and coach a small team, provide technical direction and leadership, foster a culture of innovation and engineering excellence.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management responsibilities

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