Lead Data Scientist

Company: Catchfish
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Location: Fleet
Job Description:

Overview

In this lead role you will shape NLP-driven solutions within a fintech context, combining architectural leadership with hands-on development. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to design scalable NLP systems and data pipelines, driving technical strategy and delivery. The position emphasizes innovation, modern tech stacks, and high performance. This is an opportunity to influence product direction and architecture at scale while mentoring others.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and delivery of NLP-driven architectures and platforms
  • Hands-on development in NLP-related solutions
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship within the team
  • Collaborate with data engineering/science to align data pipelines with NLP workloads
  • Drive architecture decisions and best practices across projects

Key requirements

  • NLP experience commercially
  • Strong Python, R and SQL development skills
  • Hands on solution architecture experience
  • Background in data engineering or data science
  • leadership
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • NLP
  • Python
  • R

Posted: September 14th, 2026