Data Scientist Junior jobs in United Kingdom

Hello. We're Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we're improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands - including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum - through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What's more, we're achieving it in a company that we're in control of. In an environment that we're co-creating. And a culture that's uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn't a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we're uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It's an opportunity to be part of something special.

This is a unique opportunity to join our high performing Data science team

Hybrid role 1-2 days a week onsite at Bankside, London.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of data science solutions across a variety of projects.
• Using cutting edge ML techniques to discover patterns and make predictions to help solve customer needs.
• Work closely with other data scientists, product owners and data engineers to deliver high quality data science powered solutions to interesting problems.
• Help prepare datasets to train and validate machine learning models.
• Support the deployment of machine learning models on our infrastructure.
• Readiness to contribute to a highly collaborative team with a culture of openness and ownership.
• Developing Data Science solutions in line with Haleon's responsible AI policy.

• BSc Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics or another similar field.
• An understanding of data analysis techniques and their application to inform business processes.
• Working knowledge of programming in Python or R.
• Knowledge of common Python or R packages used in the Data Science toolkit. (Pandas, Numpy, Sci-Kit Learn, tidyverse etc.)
• Practical knowledge of statistical modelling techniques and applied Machine Learning algorithms.
• A working knowledge of using data loading and manipulation tools like SQL.
• Experience with using tools like GitHub for version control and managing code changes.
• Prior exposure to Agile methodologies for managing workflow and tasks.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills.

• MSc Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent.
• Experience using Databricks and Spark.
• A working knowledge of OOP and contributing to large codebases.

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