Data Scientist

Company: Oxford Data Plan Ltd
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Location: London
Job Description:

We are looking for a full-time data scientist to work with us on the following areas:

  1. Product deployment – creating, deploying, and maintaining new KPI trackers.

  2. Research – finding, collecting, and evaluating new data sources, developing new experimental product features for end-users, improving our methodology.

Reporting to the Data Science Manager you will:

  • Write robust, commented scripts to collect, clean, process, and save data.

  • Analyze data, build, validate, and test prototype models in Jupyter.

  • Construct automated pipelines for moving and processing data between different sources.

  • Produce data visualisations and dashboards in Python and/or PowerBI.

  • Deploying new jobs using Docker and AWS technologies.

  • Monitoring, debugging and maintaining production code.

To be successful in the role you should have:

  • Proficiency in Python:

    • Ability to write functional, reproducible, and well documented code.

    • Proficient with typical data scientist modules (pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn).

  • Strong Statistical knowledge:

    • Good understanding of fundamental statistical concepts (e.g. bias, variance, R-squared).

    • Good understanding of the theory and practice of linear regression.

  • Self-motivated and autonomous individual.

  • Significant training and support will be provided; however, we expect a successful candidate to quickly take full ownership of their work and proactively make an impact in ODP.

  • Some experience working with databases and using SQL.Strong Excel skills.Experience with Git.Interest in finance.

Desirable skills

  • Proficient in web-scraping – at least with requests, ideally with selenium or other web-scraping packages.
  • Software development – experience in managing installable python packages is very valuable.
  • Proficient SQL and database knowledge and experience.
  • Advanced knowledge of time-series modelling or Bayesian statistics.
  • Experience working with AWS.
  • Experience creating visualisations with Power BI.
  • Proficiency with Git.
  • Experience/proficiency with Docker.
  • Good experience/knowledge of the finance sector.

Applicants should be fluent in English and have an interest in Finance and Data Science.

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Posted: September 24th, 2026