Principal Consultant - Data Scientist

  • Full-time

Company Description

Bringing Ingenuity to Life

We’re an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive-human future in a technology-driven world. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking with breakthrough-technologies to progress further, faster.

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Those that start using AI and advanced data analytics early will gain the most. While the technology is yet to live up to the hype, using it now gives a chance to get ahead, learn and improve to drive long-term value.

Job Description

It’s essential to start with developing and deploying use cases and meanwhile building a capability around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics. It’ll be a key differentiator in the short term, and a necessity in the long term.

We are hiring at all levels:

  • Data Scientists- Using our analytics expertise, we help our clients find hidden insights in mass data sets so you can plan more effective responses to tough challenges.
  • Data Engineers - Our data engineering and architecture expertise helps unlock our client’s data, opening doors to new business opportunities, optimal organisational performance and great user experience.
  • Data Architects - We’re experts in uncovering the real story buried in data. We are looking for data architects who know how the future data platforms look like and know how they interact with existing legacy clients’ architecture.

In recent projects our team have:

  • Analysed the blogosphere to identify influencers
  • Used voice and text analytics to predict customer sentiments and Net Promotor Scores
  • Created an internet of things trial for a FTSE 100 company
  • Used unstructured data to predict breaches in ethical behaviour of global organisations
  • Used deep learning to uncover optimal settings to make a pharmaceutical manufacturing process 15% more efficient
  • Analysed live audio data to create individual sound zones
  • Used neural networks to detect patterns in massive highly non-linear time-series.

Qualifications

  • A degree, Masters or PhD from a leading university in mathematics, operational research, physics, finance and economics or computer science
  • A genuine affinity for problem solving - an inquisitive mind who wants to solve the trickiest challenges whilst working with incredible colleagues
  • Experience of conducting analysis for evidence based decision making, developing models and decision support tools or building business cases for investment decisions
  • We work independently of any particular platform so we can provide unbiased client advice and choose the best approach for our clients
  • Existing experience in consulting would be beneficial although we equally like in-house experience
  • An inquisitive mind that wants to solve the trickiest challenges whilst working with incredible colleagues
  • Existing experience in consulting would be beneficial although we equally like in-house experience

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Additional Information

Benefits

  • Private medical insurance
  • Travel allowance 
  • 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
  • Company pension scheme
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • Life and Income protection insurance
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
  • Additional optional benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]

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