Junior Data Scientist (ID: SZpE5KIG)

Place of Work: Hybrid
Salary: £ 26,000 - £ 30,000 (Per Annum)
Date Posted: 26-May-2025
Expiry Date: 22-Nov-2025
Job Details:
Location: Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom
Job Category: Data Scientist
Career Level: Junior
Contractual Type: Full Time/Permanent
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
Qualifications: Degree Educated in a STEM Discipline
Experience: 1 to 2 years
Positions Available: 1
Skills Required
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Visualization
  • Machine Learning
  • Python
  • SQL
Benefits
  • Casual Dress
  • Flexitime
  • Health & Wellbeing Programme
  • Private Medical & Dental
  • Sick Pay
  • Work from Home
Job Description

This role offers the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team, applying data analytics, model training, software development, and AI to address real-world issues and enhance or generate new products within the Classify platform.

Education requirements:

  • University degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field

Experience:

  • Demonstrated project experience with real-world datasets
  • Portfolio showcasing data analysis and problem-solving capabilities

Essential Criteria:

  • Programming Proficiency: Advanced competency in Python, including data structures, functions, and maintainable code practices
  • Statistical Analysis: Strong foundation in statistics (hypothesis testing, distributions, probability) and mathematics (linear algebra, calculus)
  • Data Manipulation: Expertise in data cleaning and transformation using pandas, SQL proficiency, handling missing data and outliers

Desired Criteria:

  • Machine Learning: Understanding of fundamental ML algorithms (regression, classification, clustering) and model evaluation metrics; experience with scikit-learn preferred
  • Data Visualization: Ability to create effective visualizations using matplotlib/seaborn/ggplot2 or similar; understanding of data storytelling principles
  • Communication: Proven ability to translate technical findings into business insights; strong presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Company Benefits:

  • Comprehensive full Private Health Insurance
  • Comprehensive dental insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – a confidential employee benefit designed to help you and close family members deal with personal and professional problems.
  • Generous annual leave allowance
  • Company pension scheme
  • Casual dress
  • Flexitime
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Sick pay
  • Work from home

About Us:

We are headquartered in Boston with employees in New York, Arizona, California, England, and Northern Ireland.

Our flagship product, enables clients to reduce their financial and data risk by increasing their data understanding, classification, and security, allowing clients to meet all of the current, new, and changing laws, regulations, and business drivers. In other words, making intelligent business decisions.

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

  • United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Belfast BT2

Reference ID: Junior Data Scientist  -  Job Types: Full-time, Permanent  -  Pay: £26,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

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