We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist who has applied data science in the real world, working with stakeholders to solve meaningful business or operational challenges, not just building models in isolation.
Technical skills matter, but we're equally interested in how you think, collaborate and approach problems.
Job title:
Senior Data ScientistJob Description:
🕒 Permanent role - 37.5 hours a week
📍 Hybrid role with 2 or 3 days a week in Warminster
🔐 Due to the nature of this role, you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance at BPSS level.
What you’ll be doing
- Work directly with stakeholders to understand problems, challenge assumptions and identify opportunities.
- Turn complex operational questions into practical data science solutions.
- Apply analytics, statistics and machine learning to generate meaningful insights and recommendations.
- Build models, analytical products and visualisations that support decision-making.
- Communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams while retaining the freedom to explore problems in depth.
- Operate confidently in environments where the answer is not always obvious.
- Champion evidence-based decision-making and help grow a culture of curiosity, learning and continuous improvement.
What we’re looking for
We're looking for someone who:
- Is naturally curious and enjoys tackling difficult real-world challenges.
- Has experience with complex, large-scale data in mission critical contexts.
- Wants to understand the people, processes and decisions behind the data.
- Has experience applying data science to solve genuine business or operational problems.
- Can build credibility with stakeholders and communicate complex ideas simply.
- Is comfortable working independently, taking ownership and navigating ambiguity.
- Enjoys collaborating with others and contributing to a supportive, high-performing team.
- Can move comfortably between stakeholder conversations and hands-on technical work.
- Is motivated by delivering measurable outcomes rather than building models for their own sake.
- Enjoys testing a hypothesis, iteration, experimentation and prototyping
- Can comfortably translate results in non-technical language, while being also able to defend the maths behind the models
Essential Skills/Experience/Qualifications
- Strong practical experience in data science, statistics or advanced analytics.
- Experience using Python, R, SQL and relevant analytical or machine learning techniques.
- A track record of translating analytical findings into actionable recommendations and decisions.
Desirable Skills/Experience/Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience of collective training
- Knowledge of the military/Army
About ACTS (Army Collective Training Service)
The OMNIA® Training consortium brings together five leading UK defence training organisations: Capita, Raytheon, Rheinmetall, Cervus and Skyral. As the British Army’s Strategic Training Partner (STP), OMNIA has a clear mission: to transform collective training over the next 15 years and deliver world-class training for the British Army.
Working with the Land Warfare Centre (LWC), OMNIA will schedule, plan, design, deliver and assure collective training across the Army’s Collective Training System (ACTS), while also delivering the Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP). This generational opportunity will enable more relevant, challenging and safe training, helping the British Army to fight and win. Central to this mission is the ability to set and measure training performance against requirements, assure operational readiness, and capture associated training and safety risks.
What’s in it for you?
- Salary up to £60,000 depending on skills and experience
- Enjoy flexible benefits including extra leave purchase, paid volunteering days, enhanced family leave, lifestyle discounts, and access to inclusive employee networks — all designed to support your wellbeing and personal growth.
- Onsite, secure parking
- Rewarding role making a real difference to those joining and progressing within the British Army
- Flexible working
Unlock Your Potential with Capita
At Capita, your career can take you wherever your ambition leads. You'll become part of a diverse network of talented, forward-thinking professionals working across a wide range of disciplines and sectors. We’re committed to your growth — offering exciting opportunities to expand your skills, explore new paths, and advance your career. Join us and discover a career with purpose. #CareersWithPurpose
🤝 Customer first, always🧑💻 Fearless innovation✅ Achieve together💙 Everyone is valued
What we hope you’ll do next:
Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Equal Opportunities
Capita is committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process. We’re a Disability Confident employer and welcome applications from everyone. If you need adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected] or call 07784 237318.
For more on equal opportunities and available adjustments, visit the Capita Careers website.
For general queries, email [email protected].
Location:
Warminster,
United KingdomTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentSkills Required
- Appropriate qualification in data science, statistics, mathematics, operational research, computer science, another quantitatively focused discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Significant practical experience applying statistics and data science methods to complex real-world problems
- Proficiency in at least one data science programming language, such as Python or R
- Strong working knowledge of SQL
- Ability to write, test, review, and document moderate-to-complex analytical code
- Experience across the data science lifecycle, including problem framing, data preparation, exploratory analysis, feature development, modelling, validation, communication, and transition into use
- Understanding of statistical modelling and machine learning techniques
- Experience in at least two areas such as forecasting, anomaly detection, optimisation, simulation, natural language processing, causal inference, or experimental analysis
- Knowledge and experience of collective training
- Knowledge of the military or British Army
Capita Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Capita and has not been reviewed or approved by Capita.
-
Flexible Benefits — Hybrid/remote options, job sharing and compressed hours are available across many roles, and remote-work convenience can meaningfully add to overall value.
-
Parental & Family Support — Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave are part of the offering, signalling stronger family support than basic statutory levels.
-
Retirement Support — A company‑matched pension and life assurance are provided for UK roles, delivering core financial protection within the package.
Capita Insights
What We Do
Capita is a leading provider of business process services, driven by data, technology and people. We are a purpose-led, responsible organisation¬. Every day our 50,000 colleagues help millions of people, by delivering innovative, digitally enabled solutions to transform and simplify the connections between government and citizens, businesses and customers. We partner with our clients and provide the insight and technologies that give time back, allowing them to focus on what they do best and making people’s lives easier and simpler. We operate across three divisions – Capita Public Service, Capita Experience and Capita Portfolio – in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa. Capita is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (CPI.L). Further information can be found at: http://www.capita.com
