Data Scientist

Company: Birkbeck University
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Overview

In this role you will design and develop data analytics capabilities for the Warestack open-source project, focusing on collecting, processing, and analyzing operational data from software delivery and DevOps workflows. You will work with data from GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, logs, and system events to deliver analytics, monitoring, and AI-assisted insights that improve visibility, reliability, and decision-making. You will build Python-based data pipelines, assess CI/CD performance, and apply AI techniques for root-cause analysis and recommendations. This is a full-time, on-site position at Birkbeck’s Bloomsbury campus, with a fixed-term arrangement that supports

Pay / Benefits

  • 31 days paid leave
  • pension scheme
  • flexible working arrangements
  • central London location

Responsibilities

  • Develop Python-based pipelines to collect, clean, transform and analyse data from cloud infrastructure and DevOps environments
  • Analyse CI/CD workflows to identify performance trends, bottlenecks, anomalies and recurring failures
  • Apply machine-learning, large language models and AI techniques to log analysis and operational recommendations
  • Support the development, testing, deployment and monitoring of analytics services using DevOps practices

Key requirements

  • Experience with data analytics for operational data
  • Proficiency in Python for data processing
  • Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps workflows and cloud infrastructure
  • Ability to apply ML/AI techniques to log data and incident analysis
  • Experience with analytics service development and monitoring
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • strong communication
  • Python
  • data pipelines
  • GitHub APIs

Posted: September 19th, 2026