Contract - Lead Data Scientist

Sphere Digital Recruitment • Contract • Greater London, England, United Kingdom • £10,000 / hour • 3m ago

An exciting creative agency in London is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to drive innovation across audience strategy, insight, and prototype tooling.

Location: London
Office Policy: Hybrid (2-3 days onsite)
Contract Length: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP
Salary: £90k Pro Rata or Day Rate Inside IR35

The Job

Lead development and maintenance of machine learning, LLM, and AI prototype tools
Own end-to-end design and deployment across computer vision, NLP, and deep learning use cases
Work with Python, GCP, SQL, Docker, FastAPI, HuggingFace, PyTorch and more
Collaborate with strategists to translate briefs into data-driven solutions
Explore innovative data applications, from image/audio features to creative performance
Build data pipelines and visual outputs for Tableau, Power BI or bespoke JS tools
Manage junior Data Scientists and Analysts, providing technical leadership and mentoring
Support strategy and revenue goals through tool development and performance insight
Collaborate with wider tech teams across the agency group to scale high-impact tools

You

Strong data science background with hands-on experience in ML, NLP, LLMs, and deep learning
Comfortable working with ambiguity and creating structure from open briefs
Confident communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP
Proven ability to manage and mentor junior team members
Bonus: academic background (Masters or PhD) or experience in creative, cultural, or behavioural fields

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