Data Scientist
Birmingham, West Midlands (with hybrid working)
We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Scientist to join our team in Birmingham where you will play a key role in our newly established Data Innovation Hub. You will be responsible for leading analysis on a range of data projects to generate meaningful insight and evidence to add value to the work of our organisation. By collaborating with colleagues, you will help identify projects for data to be used in new ways within our organisation answer our priority questions.
As a Data Scientist, you will scope and plan data analytical projects, taking into account business needs and priorities.
Your role will also involve:
- Working to democratise data analytics at all levels of the organisation and help educate colleagues in use and interpretation of data.
- Analysing large databases from various sources of structured and unstructured data, whilst recommending and implementing the most effective analytical approaches to achieve our goals.
- Working with the Senior Data Engineer to establish and define data requirements, ETL processes and tools and storage needs for data.
- Communicating the findings of your analysis and supporting colleagues to use these insights to inform their work.
- Translating technical data to simple language and giving recommendations and conclusions to colleagues.
- Developing interactive dashboards and other data products which help maximise the value we can derive from data.
This is a hybrid role, therefore there will be a requirement to attend our Birmingham Office.
- Great interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work with others to identify how data can help solve problems in a wide range of policy or operational contexts.
- Ability to think creatively about the most effective analytical approaches to solve problems and explain the rational for your preferred approach to non-technical colleagues.
- Proficiency in designing algorithms and using statistical and problem structuring methods.
- Proficiency in programming, ideally Python or R.
- Experience using Microsoft Power BI.
- Experience in data visualisation and presenting data in graph or pictorial format.
- BA / BSc in a STEM field, or any other highly numerical degree.
Alongside your salary of £45,000, Gambling Commission contributes £12,150 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Salary of up to £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
- Civil service pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working, specific guidelines are to be agreed with line manager
- 26 days holiday, rising to 29 days after 2 years’ service, with the option to buy up to five days extra annual leave
Joining us means joining an organisation that is certified as a Great Place to Work, respects work-life balance, inclusive, and is completely dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential. Whether that’s through flexible working, really understanding how you work best or exposing you to real opportunities to challenge yourself, if you’re passionate about making your mark on the industry and on society, then we will help you do that.
The closing date for this role is 3 September. Please apply on our careers website.
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Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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