Data Scientist - Technical Expert

Data Scientist – Technical Expert

Salary: £50,000 - £70,000

6-Month FTC

Are you an experienced Data Scientist with a deep technical skill set and a passion for leveraging data to solve complex problems? If this sounds like you, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Data Scientist - Technical Expert. In this role you will be advocating and executing change, innovation, and governing best practise across the team and providing technical expertise to our newly formed and growing Data Change & Innovation team.

This is initially a Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) with the potential to become permanent for the right candidate.

A bit about the job:

Our Customer Science team uses data to understand customers so we can be more relevant and take better actions.  We are award-winning, and passionate about driving better customer & commercial outcomes.  Find out more: https://careers.aviva.co.uk/our-teams/digital-customer-data/ 

This role is for a Data Scientist – Technical expert who will work within one of our AI/ML teams. They will build productionised solutions, working within cross-functional teams to bring state of the art machine learning to our business. They will partner with colleagues to identify opportunities to apply AI and make a difference to real business problems. They will build the high impact models that power our customer and marketing transformation. Their solutions will be simple yet innovative and they will create and share knowledge allowing us to grow together as a team.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Educated to degree or post-graduate level, in numerate /programming-oriented subject, or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge through industry experience

• Experience of using Python and SQL-like languages in data science

• Knowledge and experience in machine learning techniques and approaches (e.g. supervised / unsupervised / reinforcement learning) and indicators of model accuracy

• Knowledge of how to create end-to-end machine learning deployments

• Experience of working with stakeholders and non-technical experts

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary – £50,000 - £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Matthew Drew a call on 0121 234 7664 or send an email to matthew.drew@aviva.com.