Data Scientist- up to £60k DOE
Fletchers Solicitors Ltd have a fantastic opportunity for a Data Scientist to join our growing team!
Location: Southport/ Manchester/ Leeds/Liverpool/Hybrid
If you are looking for a new role in a growing company that offers a great work life balance, fabulous benefits, and will support you and your goals, then this could be the role for you!
Fletchers is a rapidly growing law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law. Over the last three years, we have had a small but successful data science project developing and implementing a decision-support neural network, and now are building our data science team and capabilities. This small but growing team will be tasked with developing and deploying arrange of ML tools within our firm, with the potential to commercialise these to the wider industry in the future. By leveraging the wealth of legal-medical data that Fletchers has, and the funding provided by our Private Equity owners, we will further develop our sector-specific ML tools. Our initial focus is on NLP tools for supporting or automating legal tasks, and decision-support systems, which we are developing through an experimental project that reports directly to the executive team.
We are based in the North-West of the UK, with offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds & Southport, although many of our colleagues work primarily from home. Our existing AI project team is spread across Cambridge, London, Manchester & Preston and will include PhD students at the University of Liverpool.
We are looking for a Data Scientist to work with our Head of Data Science to build and maintain efficient and scalable Machine Learning (ML) pipelines. They will build ML tools for a range of sector-specific challenges, initially focussing on using NLP, LLMs, and classification tools for text interpretation and automation of legal tasks. This role will work closely with the data science, engineering and infrastructure teams and will have ample opportunity to influence the technical direction of their projects.
In this role, you should be highly analytical, well versed in analysis, maths and statistics. You will be asked to produce maintainable code and work in a professional development environment (albeit within a small team). We would like to see a passion for research in ML, especially around Large Language Models (LLMs).
In return Fletchers can offer:
- A bonus scheme paid yearly (subject to targets being met)
- Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option.
- Life Assurance Policy
- Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical, and other medical expenses, along with discounts on travel, cinema, electronics, home and groceries.
- 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days, holiday per year,
- Long service award 3 days extra holidays after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment.
- Enhanced company sick, maternity, Paternity and IVF pay scheme.
- Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
- Varied calendar of funded company social events
- Monthly voucher awards
Our People:
Our people are at the heart of everything we do! We take pride in the results gained for our clients and go the extra mile to get justice.Fletchers are an employer of choice, rated a top 80 Law Firm by the Times. Our culture drives our employees to achieve the best, not only for the customers but for their own growth, development, and wellbeing.
So much has happened in the last year at Fletchers:
- We became Fletchers Group following several acquisitions and have big plans for more growth.
- We opened 2 new office locations in Leeds and Liverpool (alongside Southport and Manchester)
- We launched the Fletchers Foundation charity to support injured people.
Thats just to name a few, check out our website for more:
https://www.fletcherssolicitors.co.uk/about-us
https://fletcherscareers.co.uk/vacancies/
Main Responsibilities:
- Build pipelines to train and validate task-specific ML models
- Process a range of data to create maintainable datasets for ML applications
- Monitor and iteratively improve models
- Propose technical solutions to tackle business challenges
- Analyse data and present information to technical teams
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and product development teams
- Contribute to production of ensemble models that tackle higher-level business challenges
Requirements and skills:
Required:
- Strong maths fundamentals, e.g. statistics, linear algebra, optimisation
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MSc or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or relevant field
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1-3 years industry experience as a Data Scientist
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Proficiency in Python
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Previous experience with LLMs and/or NLP
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Good understanding of core principles and fundamentals of ML algorithms
Desirable:
- Experience with data mining & interpreting unstructured text data
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Knowledge of SQL
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Previous experience working in cloud environments (even better if Azure)
The above list is not exhaustive of any other tasks, which may be required.
We reserve the right to close this role before the date specified depending on the calibre and volume of candidates.