Lead Data Scientist

UK - London💼 Full-time🗓 2025-07-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead Data Scientist setting technical direction and delivering high-impact, production-grade AI solutions for financial services clients.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Data Scientist (Financial Services)

Builds

Production-grade AI solutions for financial institutions

Domain

Financial Services / Applied AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning domain expertise, technical leadership, project management, client relationship management, cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning, mentoring

Preferred skills

Experience with business unit-level initiatives, managing teams including other managers

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Setting technical direction for complex projects, designing and implementing production-grade solutions, defining project roadmaps, leading technical scoping for sales opportunities, managing client relationships, driving adoption of best practices, mentoring team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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About Faculty

Faculty is one of the world's leading applied AI companies, helping many of the organisations that shape our world to adopt AI successfully and safely. We play an important role in the emerging AI safety ecosystem. We already have many of the key Frontier Labs as clients, including Open AI and Anthropic, for whom we provide third-party red teaming, technical testing and other AI safety services. And we work with the UK government and other international governments on AI safety, including helping set up the AI Security Institute and delivering technical work which catalysed the first global AI