Data Scientist

Data Scientist | GenAI & BigQuery ML

Manchester - Hybrid ( 2 days a week )

£500 Per Day Inside IR35

Long Term Contract

We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join a major UK banking client, developing machine learning, NLP and Generative AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

This is a hands-on opportunity combining model development, experimentation and responsible AI, with scope to mentor junior colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:

• Translate business challenges into clearly defined data science problems and success metrics.

• Build and evaluate classical ML and NLP models, covering feature engineering, training, validation and optimisation.

• Use BigQuery and BigQuery ML to develop scalable modelling workflows.

• Prototype GenAI solutions using LLMs, embeddings, prompting and RAG.

• Produce model cards and governance documentation, working with engineering teams to operationalise solutions.

What we’re looking for:

✅ 10+ years across Data Science, ML Engineering or related applied AI roles.

✅ Strong Python, SQL and practical BigQuery ML experience.

✅ Hands-on classical ML, NLP and LLM experience.

✅ Strong experiment design, statistical evaluation and model explainability skills.

✅ Confident stakeholder communication and experience supporting model governance.

GCP, Vertex AI, agentic AI and financial services experience would be advantageous.

Interested? Send me a message with your CV for more information.

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