Data Scientist - onsite PhD

Data Scientist - onsite London - PhD required

Job Category: Indiv Contributor-Slry

Requisition Number: DATAS
003457

• Full-Time
• On-site

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London, UK W1W7NY
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WELLTOWER - REIMAGINE REAL ESTATE WITH US

At Welltower, we’re transforming how the world thinks about senior living and wellness-focused real estate. As a global leader in residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure, we create vibrant, purpose-driven communities where housing, healthcare, and hospitality converge. Our culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and endlessly ambitious- guided by our mantra:
The only easy day was yesterday.

We’re looking for bold, independent thinkers who thrive on challenge, embrace complexity, and are driven to deliver long-term value. Every team member is empowered to think like an owner, innovate fearlessly, and lead from where they stand. If you're passionate about outcomes and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare infrastructure, we want you on our best-in-class team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Data Scientist will work with the current Data Science team in the US/Canada, along with the investment/asset management team in the UK, and integrate information from various sources and analyze it for better understanding about how the business performance can be enhanced, and to analyze output from AI and ML tools that automate certain processes for capital allocation in the UK.

The Data Scientist will report to the Lead Data Scientist in the US/Canada and have a dotted line to the Head of Investment in the UK, and will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter investment and asset management decisions. The primary focus of this role will be in applying machine learning and predictive analytics techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high-quality prediction systems integrated with our business model.

This role will support and challenge the investment and asset management team in understanding locations across the UK where we have potential deals and where we will manage our existing assets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist the Business Insights team with Welltower’s data and analytics strategy and predictive analytics application for UK asset management and investment teams
• Work with the investment and asset management team to guide them to the right location/market based on the data science platform
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information as and when needed and integrate the third-party data into the Welltower data science models
• Analyzing the output of the predictive analytics model to make meaningful information valuable to UK investment process and challenge the UK investment team’s thesis with data backed analysis
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results to the UK team

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of this employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TRAVEL

Minimal travel should be expected.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• Knowledge of data and analytics landscape and with at least 2 years of work experience
• Strong technical skills to include a deep understanding of (but not limited to):
  Reporting and Analytical Analysis, Predictive Modeling, and Solution Architect
• Excellent understanding of machine learning…