Senior Data Scientist (Law firm)

Job Description:

My client, a provider of on-demand legal talent through an online platform, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their expanding team in Belfast. The platform connects clients with a network of highly qualified and experienced lawyers who can work on a project or long-term basis.

They offer services in a wide range of practice areas, including corporate, litigation, employment, and intellectual property law. The company is known for its alternative approach to traditional law firm models, offering clients greater flexibility, cost-efficiency, and access to specialized legal expertise.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be part of a new and growing team that is focused on uncovering deeper insights. The initial data science team will include a Technical Product Manager, Data Engineer, and Data Research Scientist (your role). The company is looking for a Research Scientist to define and build solutions that discover new and innovative ways to utilize the data within the company's reach.

This role requires an expert in the areas of machine learning and statistics who can adapt theoretical models to an applied environment. The ideal candidate will have experience with models for natural language processing tasks.

A successful candidate will have a passion for clarity, be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, be able to work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment and be driven by a desire to innovate. Given the complex nature of the questions we are working on, the ideal candidate will be relentlessly curious and be able to/be interested in having the business conversations underlying the data.

Role responsibilities:

• Design and build ML solutions that capture business and customer insights from various sources and help drive business outcomes
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to design and implement ML solutions
• Continuously interrogate, improve, and experiment with new and existing ML solutions at the company
• Provide technical and scientific guidance to your peers and team members
• Publish and present your work at internal and external scientific venues in the fields of ML

Essential Criteria:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of demonstrated proficiency with data querying using SQL
• 3+ years of demonstrated data modeling techniques in R or Python
• 3+ years of demonstrated proficiency deploying reporting and analytics representing modeling outputs
• 2+ years of applied research experience
• 2+ years of experience defining research and development practices in an applied environment
• 2+ years of experience reviewing research papers, algorithms, and code
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills
• High technical acumen and ability to communicate effectively with a variety of technical stakeholders
• Self-starter with strong sense of ownership, drive for results, and problem-solving skills

Desirable Criteria:

• Masters or PhD in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, statistics, or another quantitative field
• Experience working with AWS big data processing technologies (S3, Sagemaker, Redshift, EMR, Spark)
• Experience in data modeling, ETL development, and data warehousing
• Familiarity with NLP and statistical models
• At least one record of publication in machine learning
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code review, source management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and gitlab

For further information on this vacancy, or any other Data Scientist roles in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Rachel Boyle in the strictest confidence.