Data Scientist Jobs in London

Principal Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

Data Scientist - Developer Tools (London, United Kingdom)

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration,

Process System Engineer/Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Investment Data Scientist (Equities) | Top Performing Hedge Fund

Senior Data Scientist (Agentic AI)

Data Scientist_ GEN AI

Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Principal/Senior Data Scientist – Computational Genomics

Principal Data Scientist - Computational Biology

Genomic Data Scientist (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Job Type: Permanent Build a brilliant future with Hiscox Position: Senior Data Scientist Reporting to: Lead Data Scientist Location: London Type: Permanent As a Senior Data Scientist at Hiscox, you will take on a high-impact role, acting as a critical thinker and problem solver for the business. You’ll apply your core technical skills and innovative thinking to tackle complex challenges, identify opportunities, and help shape data-driven decision-making across the London Market. You’ll operate across a wide variety of business functions, managing multiple priorities and delivering both ad hoc analysis and predictive/prescriptive models. Your work will contribute directly to building Hiscox’s data culture and enabling evidence-based decisions in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Communicating the business value of your analytical solutions to stakeholders will be a key part of your role. You’ll be part of an award-winning team, recognised for its pioneering collaboration with Google to deliver the market’s first AI-enhanced lead underwriting solution. This achievement reflects the team’s commitment to innovation, impact, and excellence in applying data science to real-world insurance challenges. As a Data Scientist, you’ll work within a wider technical team whose efforts span multiple business functions, bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving and analysis. This is an ideal role for someone who is passionate about using analytics to influence decisions and is keen to continue learning and delivering value through data. You’ll be expected to conceptualise new approaches, communicate your vision clearly to stakeholders, and see ideas through to implementation. Key Responsibilities: Leveraging industry standards, past experience, emerging methodologies and empirical research to develop critical inputs to business information and helping business leaders develop innovative approaches to driving their business. Working on the end-to-end data solution including understanding complex business challenges, designing scientific solutions, working with large and small data sets (including 3rd party and internal data of a wide variety), using cutting-edge machine learning or statistical modelling techniques to derive insights Work collaboratively with data scientists, data engineers and other technical people including pricing and underwriting teams in order to help support maturation of analytics practice within the organisation. Work closely with other members of the data and analytics community at Hiscox, contributing to delivering value though the use of a range of analytics techniques. Person Specification: Degree in a STEM or closely related field or equivalent experience. A further degree is a plus. Deep data science experience with a history of influencing decisions and delivering solutions that create tangible business value. Experience of data science in finance or insurance is an advantage but not required. Ability to conduct high quality research in a suitably timely manner working in both independently and in small teams as required by the task. Familiarity with version control, agile working and other IT delivery tools is required Skills: Experience in developing predictive and prescriptive analysis (predictive modelling, machine learning or data mining) used to draw key business insights and clearly articulate findings for target audience. Experience with analytical tools / programming languages and databases (for example: Python, R, SQL). Experience with large language models and prompting, GCP experience is a plus. Interest in a variety of machine learning techniques from simple linear models and random forests to deep learning. A particular interest in natural language processing or machine vision. A strong grasp of foundational statistics is essential. Experience working both in small teams and independently on analytics projects. Strong verbal and written communications skills and effective presentation skills. This is absolutely essential since you will have a lot of exposure to different internal stakeholders. Willingness to learn best practice in software development. Knowledge of insurance is an advantage but not essential. Apply now for further information Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture*

Research Fellow (Data Scientist) - INNOVATE+ Project

Data Scientist - Operations Research

Senior Data Scientist

Senior (Lead) Data Scientist ================================ We are looking for a Senior (Lead) Data Scientist to join us as we continue to evolve and build our next generation of models at Funding Circle. You will play a key role in developing, implementing and monitoring these models and drive significant value for the business. As part of the Decision Science team, you will create cutting edge statistical and machine learning models and collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. As well as improving on our previous generation models, we are expanding our borrower products so you will have the opportunity to develop completely new models. Who are we? We’re Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow. With more than a decade of expertise under our belt, we’ve built a game-changer of a platform with cutting-edge data and technology that’s reshaping the landscape of SME lending. Say goodbye to lengthy applications and hello to lightning-fast decisions! In just minutes, SMEs across the UK can get a decision, giving them access to competitive funding in a flash. We know that good business is about good people. So we pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience. The role Develop statistical and machine learning models for commercial lending products Have a clear and relentless focus on delivering business results and be comfortable challenging the status quo Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members during the model development lifecycle Mentor the team on best practices for risk mitigation Oversee the experimentation framework for model optimisations Conduct peer reviews of code and methodologies to ensure high-quality, scalable outputs Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day What we’re looking for Passionate about Funding Circle’s values and mission to support businesses Advanced Education: A Bachelors, Masters or PhD in a quantitative field or STEM related subject (Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Physics, Engineering…) Proven Expertise: Proven in problem-solving using logical reasoning and analytical methods and previous experience in Machine Learning and model building Technical Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge of Python and SQL At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the requirements. Want to learn more? We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform, the communities they serve and the overall economy (last year £6.9bn of GDP generated). You can read our full Impact Report here: https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact To see what our customers think, visit our Trustpilot page: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com And we’re still evolving! Our award-winning multi-product platform is solving more SME finance challenges than ever before. We think big, rally together and meet the needs of SME customers like no other. Why join us? At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better. As a flexible-first employer we offer hybrid working at Funding Circle, and we've long believed in a 'best of both' approach to in-office collaboration and non-office days. We expect our teams to be in our London office three times a week, where you can take advantage of our newly refurbished hybrid working space, barista made coffee and subsidised lunches (via JustEat) every day! We back our Circlers to build their own incredible career, making a difference to small businesses every day. Our Circler proposition is designed to support employees both in and out of work, and it is anchored around four pillars: Health, Wealth, Development \& Lifestyle. A few highlights: Flexibility: We provide you with a benefit allowance so that you can tailor your benefit selection to you and your family’s needs. Health: Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Assessments (including female fertility health assessments), eyecare vouchers, flu jabs, Wellhub (for discounted flexible gym membership and access to wellbeing apps) access to a free Employee Assistance Programme and free Digital GP for yourself and any children under 16. Wealth: Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover, financial coaching through Octopus Money Coach, a tax-advantaged share scheme, a free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work. Development: Dedicated annual Learning \& Development allowance and full access to internal learning platform. * Lifestyle: Electric Car Scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, Season Ticket Loans, and more! And finally, we have award winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.Ready to make a difference? We’d love to hear from you. #LI-CS1 =============

Senior Data Scientist

Data Scientist, EMEA

£99,200 - £148,800/yr

About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy wi

Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist (Agent Evaluation & Optimisation)

Data Scientist

AI/Data Scientist

Data Scientist, EMEA

About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy wi

Data Scientist - Company Planning and Execution (CPE)

Data Scientist - Company Planning and Execution (CPE) London / Stockholm Operations and Business Support – Company Planning / On-site Join our Company Planning and Execution (CPE) team at Spotify and help shape how we turn strategy into action across the company. The CPE team’s mission is to continuously improve how we develop Spotify as a product and a business to unlock the company strategy. We design and evolve the systems, processes, and insights that help Spotify plan, and execute at scale, ensuring every team can focus on delivering value to millions of users around the world. As a Data Scientist, you will work at the intersection of data, strategy, and operations. You will use analytical techniques to uncover insights that guide how Spotify plans, prioritizes, and drives execution. You will also explore ways to integrate AI and automation into our workflows and operating model to support smarter and more efficient ways of working. With access to Spotify’s extensive data ecosyste

Data Scientist - Platform Developer Experience

From $200/yr

Data Scientist - Platform Developer Experience Stockholm / London Engineering – Platform / Permanent / Remote The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify. We are an insights team supporting across the domains of Developer Experience, Client Platform and Core Infrastructure. As a member of the team, you’ll work closely with a cross functional team of data scientists, data engineers, user researchers, and product managers who are all passionate about crafting scalable products for our developers and customers. Your focus will be in the Developer Experience domain which strives to bring a phenomenal experience for developers at Spotify, and th

Data Scientist - Developer Tools (London, United Kingdom)

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration,