Senior Data Scientist - SC cleared

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)

Compensation: £49,500 - £75,000 / year

Data Scientists at Made Tech help public sector organisations decide where data and AI can genuinely improve services, then design, build and evaluate solutions that work in practice.

Our work can include statistical analysis, machine learning, natural language processing, generative AI and agentic systems. Senior Data Scientists combine hands‑on technical delivery with the judgement needed to work through ambiguity, communicate uncertainty and help clients make informed decisions.

At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the government by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We want to empower the public sector to deliver and continuously improve digital services that are user‑centric, data‑supported and freed from legacy technology. A key component of this is developing modern data systems that enable informed decision‑making for our clients.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams to understand problems, explore possible approaches and deliver useful outcomes. Depending on the project, you might:

• investigate a service or policy problem and identify how data science or AI could help;
• analyse complex or imperfect data and communicate what it can and cannot tell us;
• prototype, build and evaluate statistical, machine‑learning or AI systems;
• design and evaluate systems using large language models, retrieval, tools or agentic workflows;
• establish appropriate boundaries between model‑driven behaviour, deterministic software and human decision‑making;
• develop evaluation approaches, test cases and measures of success;
• help turn experimental work into reliable, maintainable services;
• advise clients on the responsible and proportionate use of data and AI;
• support clients to develop their own data science capability.

As a Data Scientist, you may play one or more roles according to our clients' needs. You could be working closely with clients to help shape their data strategy alongside our data engineers. At other times the role can be very hands‑on, and you'll serve in a senior contributor role to projects, focusing on both delivering data science solutions and upskilling members of the client team.

Sometimes, you might have to play the role of an advisor, suggesting to clients how data science is done and helping them set up their data science environment. At other times you will be working with the other members of data engineering teams and performing exploratory data analysis.

As a senior member of the data capability within Made Tech, you will also participate in our hiring process and continued development of the team, as well as representing us both internally to the organisation and publicly. You may also line manage members of the team up to the mid‑level.

You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users. You’ll need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. We'd love to hear some examples of times you’ve mentored, coached, and contributed to the growth of team members. Maybe you’ve written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two that you’d like to share.

We are looking for experienced data scientists who can contribute effectively to complex client delivery from the outset. You should have a track record of applying data science, machine learning or AI to real problems, and the technical judgement to choose, implement and evaluate appropriate approaches with a high degree of independence.

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