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
