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Data Science Lead

London, United KingdomFull-time2026-10-08 → 2026-10-23

Core

Lead a data science team building the data foundation for compliance systems where customers are autonomous agents, focusing on clustering, attribution, heuristics, and labelling for blockchain intelligence.

Role type

Senior IC data science lead (player-coach)

Builds

Data collection pipelines, production ML models, and platform capabilities for compliance and risk management

Domain

Fintech / Blockchain / Financial Crime Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI fluency, Python, SQL, team management, hiring, model governance, cloud data stack (Spark/Databricks/AWS), ambiguous problem solving

Preferred skills

Experience with modern data lakes, track record of delivering datasets from ambiguous questions

Technologies

Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, AWS

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the data science team, hire data scientists, build data collection specifications, own model governance and validation, frame research questions and run experiments, stay hands-on with code and methods, partner with cross-functional teams, set AI working standards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities