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Microsoft UK • United Kingdom

Data Scientist

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
83%

Location flexibility

81%

Hours flexibility

79%

Autonomy

Job Description

Are you an experienced Data Scientist, and you love what you do? Would you like to be a part of a global customer facing Team focussed on solving complex, real-world business problems? Would you like to be a part of a worldclass community of technical leaders, highly specialised in their disciplines and working together as one to bring the best practices of Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Engineering and Architecture to world’s largest enterprise customers?

The Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Engineering & Architecture Group (EAG) is a global engineering consulting organisation that supports our most complex and leading-edge customer engagements in improving their business performance with the power of Data & AI. EAG develops approaches, innovative solutions, and engineering standards to set our delivery teams and customers up for long-lasting success. We are committed to Responsible AI, and we help our customers build and operate ethical, transparent and trustworthy AI solutions.

We are hiring a Data Scientist with deep experience in advanced statistical data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Our team embraces a continuous learning and growth mindset, encourages diverse viewpoints and relentless collaboration. We value personal and cultural experiences and strive for excellence. We offer a flexible work environment to help you succeed in creating transformative and responsible AI solutions that positively impact economy and people worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage data science and business domain knowledge to improve business performance, evaluate project plans, communicate business goals, and share insights with stakeholders
  • Acquire, prepare, and explore data through querying, visualisation, reporting techniques, and collaboration with other teams, ensuring data integrity.
  • Apply machine learning and statistical analysis to develop models, train, optimise, and evaluate them, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
  • Test, review, and improve models by analysing performance, incorporating feedback, and contributing to the review process.
  • Write and debug efficient and scalable code while collaborating with engineering teams and integrate data models into customer systems.
  1. Other
  • Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

​Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or a related field, with provens years of data science experience in business context
  • Have the ability to work independently, solve complex data science problems, design and code maintainable and scalable solutions, and effectively apply data science to business challenges.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or a related field, with sufficient years of data science experience. A Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field is preferred.
  • Hands-on software engineering experience (e.g. Python,Scikit, PyTorch, C++) with main established data science frameworks
  • Proven skills and experience in a data science role
  • Familiarity with building and deploying largescale AI solutions into production within a cloud environment
  • Experience dealing with internal and external stakeholders on large, complex projects.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Company benefits

Wellbeing allowance
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Gym membership
Mental health platform access
Buy or sell annual leave
Shared parental leave
Charity donation scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Fertility treatment leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Fertility benefits
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced sick days
Compassionate leave
Travel insurance
20 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Childcare credits
Carer’s leave
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Company car
Hackathons
Open to part-time employees
Pregnancy loss leave
Life insurance
Equity packages
Financial coaching
Relocation packages
Sabbaticals
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Microsoft UK what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
83%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
81%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
67%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Working at Microsoft UK

Company employees

Globally: 228,000

Gender diversity (male:female)

67:33

Currently Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

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