Data Scientist - Financial services

Posted 22 June 2026
LocationLondon
Job type Contract
Discipline Commodities and Financial Services

Job description

​We are looking for a data scientist to work with Financial services in London, UK

Description

  • Looking for talented and experienced data scientists with experience to join the programme. Solid knowledge and experience of AI and ML is essential.

  • Design and develop AI / ML based solutions

  • Work with other data scientists to build and deploy production-level solutions

  • Troubleshoot and debug code

  • work with other teams to understand and solve business problems

Essential

  • Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn): For data wrangling, modelling, and feature engineering

  • SQL: For querying structured data sources

  • Model Development & Validation: Experience with classification, unsupervised learning (e.g. outlier detection), and ranking models

  • Machine Learning Deployment: Familiarity with containerised deployment (e.g. Podman, SageMaker, DSW pipelines)

  • Version Control (Git): To maintain reproducible and collaborative workflows

  • Time-Series Analysis: To assess risk trends over financial years

  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): To spot early signals or risk clusters

Desirable/ Advance Skills

  • Rank Aggregation/Ensemble Techniques: Understanding methods like Robust Rank Fusion (RRF)

  • Model Explainability Tools: e.g. SHAP, LIME to support interpretability

  • Experience with Model Monitoring & Drift Detection

  • Experience in RegTech / FinCrime / Data-led Supervision Projects is a plus

  • Experience developing solutions for record linkage and/or network analytics tasks

  • Experience with graph query languages (e.g., Gremlin, Cypher), graph database platforms (e.g., Neptune, Neo4j), and/or graph visualisation platforms