Naimuri – Senior Data Scientist

Company: QinetiQ
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

As a Senior Data Scientist at Naimuri you will apply a scientific, methodical approach to customer data to deliver robust, data-driven solutions. You’ll collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and customers to design, analyse, and communicate insights while advancing ML/AI capabilities. You’ll mentor earlier-career colleagues and help shape the team’s learning culture in an agile environment. This role centers on transforming data into impactful outcomes that support Naimuri’s mission of making the UK safer.

Pay / Benefits

  • Flexible/Hybrid working options
  • A company performance related bonus
  • Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%
  • AXA group 1 medical cover
  • Personal training budget
  • Holiday buy-back scheme

Responsibilities

  • Analyse and model customer data; perform statistical analyses and cleaning/transformation pipelines
  • Design and implement data ingestion, cleansing, and feature extraction processes
  • Develop, train, and deploy ML/AI models for prediction, detection, and classification
  • Visualise and present data analyses and model outputs to diverse audiences
  • Engineer data platforms, databases, and data pipelines as part of delivery solutions
  • Collaborate with software engineers and data engineers to implement data science solutions
  • Conduct and report experiments; design experiment plans and communicate results
  • Mentor and support junior colleagues to foster continuous learning across the team
  • Collaborate with customers and project leads to identify opportunities and translate requirements
  • Investigate, transform (with provenance), and model data; potentially create synthetic data when appropriate
  • Research and prototype new data science techniques; contribute to academic collaborations and supervise MSc/PhD candidates

Key requirements

  • Significant industry experience as a data scientist
  • Experience leading a team or project
  • Conscientious, curious, and scientific approach to work
  • Strong analytical problem-solving abilities
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences
  • Experience presenting analyses using tools like Jupyter Notebooks
  • Experience designing and developing data ingestion and transformation pipelines in Python
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and end-to-end ML lifecycle
  • Experience helping to transform or implement an organisation’s data science strategy
  • Ability to design and execute experiment plans and communicate findings
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Collaborative and cross-functional mindset
  • Mentoring and knowledge-sharing
  • Python
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • Data ingestion and transformation pipelines

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Posted: October 1st, 2026