Data Scientist

Introduction

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
A career in IBM CIC is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Data Scientist at IBM, you will work to solve business problems using leading edge and open-source tools such as Python, R, and TensorFlow, combined with IBM tools and our AI application suites. You will prepare, analyze, and understand data to deliver insight, predict emerging trends, and provide recommendations to stakeholders. In your role, you may be responsible for:

• Implementing and validating predictive and prescriptive models and creating and maintaining statistical models with a focus on big data & incorporating machine learning. techniques in your projects
• Writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner
• Working in an Agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other scientists, engineers, consultants and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors
• Communicating with internal and external clients to understand and define business needs and appropriate modelling techniques to provide analytical solutions
• Evaluating modelling results and communicating the results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Combines deep data and analytics skills with strong business acumen to solve business problem of Cognitive Computing Solutions. Expected to have expertise of Advanced Analytics techniques that are traditionally applied to structured data, as well as deep understanding of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques for unstructured content, so as to enable composition of holistic cognitive solutions. Is expected to be well versed in one of the following areas of Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Video Processing, Voice Processing and Watson technologies.

• Strong fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science (algorithms).
• You’re proficient at least one of the statistical programming language such as R, Python, Scala or SAS, SPSS, Matlab.
• You have a basic understanding of experience with predictive/prescriptive modeling skills.
• You have strong technical and analytical abilities, a knack for driving impact and growth, and some experience with programming/scripting in a language such as Java or Python.
• You’re great at solving problems by looking at things differently, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing & implementing solutions to complex technical issues.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong Python experience
• Experience of working with Generative AI models
• Knowldege of cloud services – ideally AWS and/or Azure
• Strong communication skills and ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ideally have experience working in public sector