Data Science Manager

Company: London Stock Exchange Group
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Location: Edinburgh
Job Description:

Overview

As Data Science Manager you lead a high-performing team delivering AI-powered products that create measurable business value at scale. You shape the technical vision, mentor talent, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Business to drive strategic AI initiatives. You will advance production-grade AI solutions using GenAI, LLMs, and Transformer tech to solve real customer problems. This role combines technical leadership with strategic execution in a fast-paced AI organization, offering impact at scale and opportunities to shape the future of AI in financial markets.

Pay / Benefits

  • hybrid-first
  • healthcare
  • retirement planning
  • paid volunteering days
  • wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Lead design, development, evaluation, and deployment of production-grade AI/ML solutions
  • Drive innovation in Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, deep learning, and transformers
  • Define the technical vision for AI products ensuring scalability, security, and business alignment
  • Provide deep expertise in model development, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment
  • Establish methodologies for LLM evaluation, benchmarking, and AI quality assessment
  • Guide architectural decisions across AI platforms, data pipelines, and MLOps/LLMOps
  • Build and mentor high-performing Data Scientists and ML engineers; manage goals and career growth
  • Speed up execution through effective planning, resource management, and governance
  • Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning; drive hiring and development
  • Lead performance management and ensure collaboration with Product, Engineering, Research, and Business teams
  • Promote responsible AI, governance, and risk management across projects

Key requirements

  • Proven success building and leading data science/AI teams delivering large-scale initiatives with measurable impact
  • Strong coaching, mentoring, and talent development capabilities
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent programs with stakeholder alignment
  • Excellent communication with technical and executive audiences
  • Extensive production-grade AI/ML expertise at scale including evaluation and deployment
  • leadership
  • communication
  • influence
  • Production-grade AI/ML at scale
  • LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, Agentic AI, transformers
  • LLM evaluation, benchmarking, prompt engineering, guardrails, AI quality assessment

Posted: September 14th, 2026