Lead Data Scientist (SEL & SWL)
Role Overview
This is a senior technical data science leadership role focused on turning advanced data science into measurable healthcare and organisational improvements.
The role works across data science, data engineering and analytics, and may cover both South East and South West London ICBs.
Successful solutions are expected to be reproducible, scalable and capable of delivering measurable value.
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Role overview
This is a senior technical data science leadership role focused on turning advanced data science into measurable healthcare and organisational improvements.
The role works across data science, data engineering and analytics, and may cover both South East and South West London ICBs.
Successful solutions are expected to be reproducible, scalable and capable of delivering measurable value.
What the role does
- Identify high-value problems and determine whether data science can make a meaningful difference.
- Select and challenge appropriate methodologies, develop rigorous solutions, and take successful work from experimentation to deployment, monitoring and evaluation.
- Strengthen methodological standards, reproducible analytical pipelines, automation, model validation and assurance.
- Work on population health management, strategic commissioning, inequalities, planning and service improvement.
- Collaborate with clinicians, commissioners, operational teams and technical colleagues to address healthcare challenges.
Candidate requirements
- Substantial experience in advanced statistics, predictive modelling and machine learning.
- Strong technical capability in Python and SQL.
- Ability to translate complex problems into analytical questions and select, test, validate and evaluate appropriate methods and models.
- Strategic and analytical judgement, comfort challenging assumptions and working through ambiguity, and ability to explain technical concepts to senior and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative approach to working across data science, data engineering, analytics and healthcare teams.
About the ICBs
NHS South East London ICB and NHS South West London ICB share a chair, chief executive and executive team under a clustering arrangement but remain separate statutory organisations.
Some teams work across both organisations and geographical areas; each employee can be employed by only one ICB.
The ICBs are focused on strategic commissioning, neighbourhood working and transforming care for local communities.
The ICB states a commitment to equality, diversity, dignity and respect.
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