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Orion Mining Inc

Lead Data Scientist - Decision Science & Machine Learning

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Lead Data Scientist - Decision Science & Machine Learning

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61265938 Posted: 30/10/2026

£600 - £800 per day, Benefits: PAYE (inside IR35)
England, South East, Greater London, London
Contract

🚀 Lead Data Scientist Opportunity | Remote (Contracted to Canary Wharf) | 12-Month Contract X2

Are you passionate about using advanced analytics, machine learning, and optimisation techniques to solve complex commercial challenges?

We're looking for an experienced Lead Data Scientist to take ownership of a cutting-edge customer decisioning and optimisation capability, driving measurable business impact through sophisticated modelling, experimentation, and production-grade machine learning solutions.

What You'll Be Doing

✅ Leading the development of Best Next Action (BNA) decisioning models

✅ Building and deploying causal inference and uplift modelling solutions

✅ Designing recommendation engines and offer optimisation frameworks

✅ Developing experimentation and measurement methodologies

✅ Delivering budget-constrained decisioning and commercial optimisation models

✅ Driving model productionisation, monitoring, governance, and operational excellence

✅ Collaborating with stakeholders across Data Science, CRM, Marketing, and Engineering teams

What We're Looking For

Essential Skills:

Advanced Python for machine learning and production data science
Strong SQL across large-scale customer, campaign, transaction, and performance datasets
Extensive Databricks experience including Workflows, Delta Tables, Unity Catalog, Model Registry, and production scoring
Git and Azure DevOps experience including branching, code reviews, testing, and deployments
Strong understanding of production ML practices, monitoring, validation, versioning, and operational handover
Experience with causal modelling, uplift modelling, experimentation, and optimisation

Desirable Skills:

MLflow and Databricks Asset Bundles
Databricks Apps, Streamlit, Dash, or React
Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) or Comarch
Marketing Mix Modelling
Recommender Systems
Operations Research and Optimisation

Contract Details

📍 Remote (Contracted to Canary Wharf)

📅 ASAP Start

⏳ 12-Month Contract

🕒 40 Hours per Week

💻 Candidate must provide their own laptop

This is an excellent opportunity to work on high-profile data science initiatives where your work will directly influence customer strategy, campaign performance, and commercial outcomes.

📩 Interested? Apply now or send me a direct message for a confidential conversation.

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People are our business worldwideOrion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.

Michael DaCosta Recruitment Manager - Energy