Senior Data Scientist

Job Reference: Req no 19738
Band: D
Salary: £49,500 - £72,900 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: 10 Month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Office Base is Newcastle, This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Job Introduction

The BBC has been serving audiences online for more than 20 years. We are creating personalised content, products and services that bring the right content, to the right people, at the right time: a personalised BBC. This will be our greatest leap since iPlayer, and that's why it's right at the top of our agenda.

To help drive this effort, we're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join the Content Discovery (Search) team as a 10-month fixed-term contract parental leave cover position. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to this team across several exciting projects, including developing end-to-end data science products improving the relevance of our search engine results.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work hands-on to deliver value to BBC audiences by developing data science products at scale. You will be a senior contributor in a cross-functional team to build machine learning products to improve the quality of search experience across the BBC and to create a data-driven culture within the team.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

Essential criteria:

• Extensive hands-on experience in data science and machine learning.
• Strong coding skills in Python.
• Proven track record contributing to technical machine learning projects.
• Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team.

Desirable experience:

• Cloud services, ideally AWS.
• MLOps, e.g. model deployment, versioning and monitoring.
• Experience working on ML projects from inception to delivery.
• Knowledge and understanding of best practices such as testing, code management and deployment.
• Working with large language models.
• Mentorship of more junior colleagues.

The BBC is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.