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Data Scientist (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: Department for Work & Pensions

Location: Predominantly remote - will need to attend Newcastle office as and when required

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

As a Data Scientist, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead the activities supporting service design in Health, as well as working on technical tasks supporting all work strands in the Data Team.
• Work with stakeholders within and outside of Health Digital to identify opportunities for quantitative research, explorative analysis and analytical model development work to support the Health Transformation Programme objectives. You will need to prioritise the backlog of these activities considering business need and capability within the team, identifying dependencies on other areas.
• Work with other leads in the Data Team as well as the Health Data Lead and the Senior Data Product Manager to ensure that work is prioritised across all delivery strands within the team.
• Drive the development of new capabilities within the team, in particular in the area or MLOps, Analytics Standards and ways of working.
• Work as a technical data professional, applying specialist programming skills with data analytics techniques in order to find and share patterns in data that can be put into action and drive better decisions across the business.
• Work in the Health Data and Analysis Platform, which is hosted in Microsoft Azure, using DataBricks and other notebook environments to deliver analysis and build models in SQL and python. You will use a variety of data sources: event-based application data, Google Analytics, DWP admin data, clerical MI.

Essential Criteria:

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

• Experience Python, SQL, R and Spark as languages.
• Experience of machine learning.
• Experience with free text analysis
• Experience of working with evolving source services, visualisation, data insights, free text analysis, time series analysis, reproduceable analytical pipelines, design develop and maintain analytical solutions
• Experience working with large or complex data sets including:
  • Identifying and gathering disparate data,
  • Exploring and documenting data,
  • Extensive data manipulation,
  • Iteration of analytical techniques
  • Visualisation of the results.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Rebecca Nolan

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.