Key skills
CloudPythonSQLGoAIMachine LearningMLDeep LearningNLPGenerative AIGenAIAnalyticsLeadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Act as the go-to expert for state-of-the-art advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
- Define and evolve best practices for complex modeling and design problems, ensuring scalability, robustness, and performance.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies and methodologies relevant to aviation analytics.
- Mentor and coach data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and domain experts to align data science initiatives with business objectives.
- Influence strategic decisions by translating complex technical insights into actionable recommendations.
- Lead by example through hands-on coding and model development.
- Design, prototype, and validate innovative solutions for high-impact problems.
- Partner with engineering teams to deploy models into production environments.
- Leverage deep knowledge of aviation, travel, or related industries to inform modeling approaches and deliver customer-centric solutions.
- Stay ahead of industry trends impacting data-driven products.
Requirements
- Comfortable working with large, complex, real-world datasets, preferably aviation-related.
- Expertise in data wrangling, feature engineering, and scalable data pipelines.
- Depth Experience: in at least one area, with experience across several (in approximate order of relevance):Predictive modeling over tabular data
- Deep Learning
- NLP + LLMs, GenAI agent pipelines
- Simulations
- Graph-based models
- Time-series forecasting
- Geospatial modeling
- Causal inference
- Reinforcement learning
- Optimization problems
- Anomaly detection
- Proven track record of deploying or partnering on customer-facing production ML systems.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL (experience with distributed or cloud‑based data platforms is a plus)
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Python
- SQL
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work