Data Scientist

Weightmans is a Top 45 law firm with offices throughout the UK. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards and achieved record rankings in Chambers UK 2017, we are immensely proud of the work we carry out for our clients and the culture we provide to our people.

Our Information Systems team is made up of many teams that work together to support Weightmans' information systems and infrastructure. The teams include: development; operations; project services; and support.

We are looking for a Data Scientist who will help us to exploit our data to deliver an even better service to our clients and improve the efficiency of our business. To achieve this, you will work on data science projects but also the development and advocation of actual products.

·         Data wrangling and (un)supervised modelling

·         Productionisation of models to perform predictive and prescriptive analyses

·         Knowledge of at least one programming language

·         Querying of large data warehouses using (T)SQL

·         Integration of additional external data

·         Data visualisation tools: Tableau, Shiny, Bokeh or Dash

·         Great communication and presentation skills whilst using meaningful data visualizations

·         BSc/Master’s/PhD in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science

·         Self-motivated, keen to learn and adapt and able to work independently and/or as part of a team

·         Some technologies you might be using: SQL Server, SQL Server Machine Learning Services, R, Python, Tableau, Shiny/Bokeh/Dash (being finalised), Excel, Spark, NLP

Please note:

• Any reference to experience or PQE in our adverts or job descriptions is to be used as a guideline only. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and with different levels of experience who can demonstrate that they fulfil the requirements of the role.

• The successful candidate appointed to this role will be subject to our standard background checking process, and any offer of employment made is conditional upon successful completion of those checks. Further details can be obtained from the Recruitment team.