Blair West is supporting an innovative SaaS business in its search for a Data Scientist. They have built a leading intelligent sales solution already used by an impressive list of retail industry clients and are looking for a well-rounded Data professional with a Data Science emphasis to develop the product further and make it a must-have for the sector.

The opportunity:

• You will take responsibility for transforming the SasS platform Data into actionable insights, identifying any gaps and opportunities presented by these data sets.
• You will work with the Product teams to identify data use cases to enhance the client and user experience on the platform.
• You will be working alongside talented and expert colleagues and will have the opportunity to upskill, learn on the job and build a successful Data and Analytics.
• This is a fully remote role with regular (2 visits per month) trips to meet with colleagues in London.

You’ll be the ideal candidate for this role if you have:

• At least two years experience in a data science/engineering or similar role.
• Technical expertise in defining and maintaining data models, data mining and segmentation techniques.
• Experience with Tableau or similar data visualisation tools.
• Professional coding experience in Python, R or similar languages used in data science/engineering. Experience with Streamlit in Python would be a plus.
• Hands-on experience with data modelling languages (SQL, DBT).
• Experience working with a cloud-native data warehouse, ideally Snowflake; however, experience working with similar products will be accepted.
• A degree in computer science, statistical degree, or similar quantitative scientific field.
• Any data science/engineering professional certifications or qualifications will be considered an advantage.

The benefits that are included with this opportunity:

• 25 days’ annual leave as standard, plus public holidays.
• Alternate Friday afternoons off in addition to the above.
• Employer pension contributions.
• Vitality Healthcare.
• Summer and Christmas team meet-ups.
• Hardware “work from home” kit.

Our commitment:

Blair West is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us, please speak to their consultant.

If you’d like to speak to someone about this opportunity:

Duncan Fraser: duncan@blairwest.co.uk / 07821128661