Shape our future as Data Scientist
A Data Scientist role is required for Capita’s Consulting Business. Devoted to assisting their reputable, blue-chip clients across multiple sectors overcome their information management challenges and unlocking the capability of their data.
This is a home-based role requiring flexibility to travel to client sites on occasion. We’re supporting our clients as they adapt to a new world in the wake of COVID-19. We’re now recruiting for roles which will help our clients to deliver vital services and to resume business wherever possible.
What you’ll be doing:
We are looking for an individual to be part of our data science team and work on engagements with clients. This includes delivering solutions and working as part of a growing data science team within Capita Consult and Transform. You will need to be adept at interfacing with clients and understanding the commercial objectives of your work.
- Directing the data gathering, data mining, and data processing processes in huge volume; creating appropriate data models.
- Conducting research on data model optimization and algorithms to improve effectiveness and accuracy on data analyses.
- Exploring, promoting, and implementing semantic data capabilities through Natural Language Processing, text analysis and machine learning techniques.
- Leading to define requirements and scope of data analyses; presenting and reporting possible business insights to management using data visualization technologies.
What we’re looking for:
You should be able to work on your own without supervision and as part of multi disciplined delivery teams. Excellent communication skills are required along with an ability to communicate with both technical and businesspeople. Experience of consultancy and working on projects from initiation to completion would be beneficial
There is a requirement to be security cleared for some activities, so you must have permanent right to work, have been in the UK for a minimum of 3 years and be willing to go through security checks.
Essential Skills & Experience
You should have some of the following essential skills:-
- Python as part of Project Delivery
- Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
- Dockerised microservice architecture and design
- JavaScript/TypeScript and React
- CI/CD pipelining
- Azure deployment and hosting
Essential Non-Technical Skills & Experience
- Customer engagement skills
- Producing solution design documentation.
- Ability to question and interrogate client data to gain insight
- Self management of workloads
- Pro-active attitude and team player
What’s in it for you?
- A competitive basic salary and benefits
- Private Healthcare
- 25 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
- Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave…and plenty more
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
- Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
- You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.
About Capita Consulting
Capita Plc are the largest UK management, services, engineering and consultancy providing services to the finance and critical infrastructure sectors and heavily aligned to all levels of government supporting key functions across the UK.
Our breadth of skills, services and reach makes us the UK’s top player in delivering management, engineering and development consultancy solutions for our customers.
Capita Consulting is a new division created in December 2019 to take a new approach to the market bringing our earned experience from industry and the broad knowledge across the group to provide advice, guidance and our combined expertise to guide and develop unique offerings and solutions to our wide range of existing clients and to develop new streams of revenue.
What we hope you’ll do next:
Looking to discover more? Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application and send us your CV. Any questions before taking the next step? You can contact for support.
All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely, we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita’s offices. Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.
We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees .
