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Principal Data Scientist (AI/ML)

🏢 Aviva 📍 Bristol, England 💼 Company - Private
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£75,000 - £95,000
£6,250 - £7,917 / mo
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Bristol, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Principal Data Scientist (AI/ML) - Salary - £75,000 to £95,000
Are you excited by the challenge of leading a machine learning team at the heart of a FTSE 100 company?
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior data scientist to take our established machine learning capability to the next level. You will work closely with stakeholders to shape our data science capability and develop our talented team of data scientists. Make a real difference to our customers using our unrivalled data and industry leading data products.
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
This role will take the lead on creating high quality data science products in 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 the business. They will direct and line manage a team of data scientists and be the technical go-to who will help evolve our practice.
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
  • Extensive experience of using Python and SQL-like languages in data science
  • Extensive experience in creating end-to-end machine learning deployments
  • Ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and non-experts
  • Experience of leading and inspiring junior data scientists
What you’ll get for this role:
  • Salary - £75,000 - £95,000 ( Depending on Skills, Location and Qualifications)
  • Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  • Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
  • 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  • Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
  • Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  • Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  • 21 volunteering hours per year
Aviva is for everyone:
We are 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.
To find out more about working at Aviva take a look
here
We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.
We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alice Neal a call on 07393469953 or send an email to alice.neal@aviva.com.
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Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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