Technical Data Scientist

Job Description

Technical Data Scientist

Full time

Derby/ Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Data Science Technical Specialist to join our team in Derby.

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

What you will be doing

You will be working in a highly outcome orientated team and be expected to use your knowledge to help develop scalable and robust AI infrastructure, methods and processes that can be adopted across the organisation. This will involve:

• Owning aspects of the AI infrastructure and robust deployment within the Rolls-Royce enterprise architecture,
• Ensuring compliance with security policies and regulation authorities,
• Facilitating data acquisition and associated knowledge management of projects
• Leading and overseeing multiple data science projects.
• Ensuring methods and processes are captured, documented and re-usable by the wider organisation.

While the role comes with no line management responsibilities you will be required to manage multiple work packages, including managing tasks for managed service providers and internal business areas we collaborate with to deliver against the company’s strategic objectives. 

Technology Stack:

We have a highly capable Microsoft Azure based AI environment with hundreds of users leveraging a collection of integrated services including Databricks, AzureML, Dataiku, DSVMs and Azure AI Services.  The technology stack is continually evolving and will be adapted to stay current and suit the changing requirements of the business.  You will play a key role in further developing and delivering this capability.  

Who we are looking for.

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree in data science, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Essential: 4+ years of experience where your primary role was in architecture, infrastructure, data science, machine learning, or a related AI role.
• Essential: Experience with a cloud platform (ideally Microsoft Azure)
• Essential: Experience with AI platform architecture and infrastructure as code (such as Terraform)
• Essential: Experience with big data technologies and distributed computing
• Essential: Very strong programming skills
• Essential: Experience leading teams and/or work package deliveries
• Desirable: Ph.D, Masters in Data Science, Machine Learning or AI-related topics
• Desirable: Experience with CI/CD, MLOps
• Desirable: Experience in Spark/Scala/PySpark
• Desirable: Experience with Generative AI and LLMOps

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do.  These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Join us and Make an Impact

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Grade level C.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.  

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here 

Grade: Level C

Contact: Aaron Thoresen-Davidson

Job Category

Digital

Posting Date

08 Apr 2025; 00:04Posting End Date15 Apr 2025