Lead Data Scientist
London • Permanent • Competitive

Lead Data Scientist

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London On-site Permanent 31 Applications
Competitive
Full-time
Posted 03 Sep 2026
Expires 03 Oct 2026

Job description

Who We Are

Fulcrum Digital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries, including banking & financial services, insurance, retail, higher education, food, healthcare, and manufacturing.


We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the resilience, performance, and operational excellence of our enterprise-grade virtualised application estate. The ideal candidate brings deep DevOps heritage — spanning both build and run phases — and excels at driving automation at scale across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and operational tooling.

Requirements

This job independently executes key elements of projects/processes within the Data Science area by applying in-depth knowledge of their discipline and area best practices to effectively resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur.

• Designs, develops, and reviews scalable machine learning models and statistical solutions to address complex business challenges, ensuring alignment with organizational standards.

• Refines and optimizes models through advanced feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and validation to ensure high performance and robustness.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including AI/ML Engineering, to support model deployment, scaling, and operationalization.

• Provides technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, reviewing their work for quality and best practices.

• Translates complex data insights into strategic recommendations for senior leadership, supporting decision-making and innovation.

• Contributes to the development of best practices, standards, and knowledge sharing within the team.

• Documents models, processes, and methodologies to ensure reproducibility and ongoing improvement.

• May contribute to solution development for new products/services and/or manage smaller project/initiatives as an experienced individual contributor with specialized knowledge within the Data Science area.


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