Data Scientist

Data Scientist£750-£800pd via UmbrellaFully remoteInitially 6 months with long term potential Leading business is looking to recruit a Data Scientist with strong experience in exploratory analytics, machine learning and NLP to support a major programme focused on extracting insight from complex, largely unstructured funding application data.This role is focused on early-stage problem solving, investigation and prototype development rather than production engineering. The successful candidate will work with ambiguous requirements, explore datasets, and design potential approaches to classification, semantic search, matching and comparison of text-heavy data.The emphasis is on understanding the data, testing hypotheses, and developing proof-of-concept solutions that can later be transitioned into production by engineering teams.Exploratory Data Science and ModellingExplore structured and unstructured datasets to identify patterns and opportunitiesBuild proof-of-concept ML and statistical modelsApply NLP and semantic techniques to classify, compare and relate text dataTest and evaluate different modelling approachesNLP and Text AnalyticsWork with text data including titles, summaries and free-text fieldsApply NLP techniques (embeddings, similarity, topic modelling, classification)Develop semantic search and matching approachesTranslate ambiguous problems into analytical solutionsEvaluation and InsightEvaluate model performance using statistical and qualitative methodsCompare ..... full job details .....