Data Science Lead

The role

You will lead a data science team within the Intelligence team as a player-coach. You will manage team direction, performance, and growth while remaining hands-on with code and model governance.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the data science team
• Hire new data scientists and own the hiring process
• Build data collections for compliance
• Own model governance, including inventory, validation, and monitoring
• Lead Elliptic's data science work by framing research questions and running experiments
• Stay technically hands-on by writing code and reviewing team work
• Own existing commitments regarding clustering, attribution, heuristics and labelling
• Partner with Intelligence Collection, Research, Investigations, Product and Engineering
• Set the AI working standard for the team

Required qualifications

• AI fluency including applying AI tools to code, data exploration, and pipeline work
• Demonstrated experience managing data scientists or machine learning engineers
• Experience hiring into a technical team
• Deep, hands-on data science and machine learning capability
• Strong Python and SQL
• Ability to interrogate large behavioural or transactional datasets
• Track record of taking ambiguous questions to delivered datasets, models or capabilities
• Experience with a modern data stack including a cloud data lake, Spark or Databricks, and AWS
• Clear communication with technical and non technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Work on agentic systems, LLM agents or autonomous transaction flows
• Experience building a large dataset or collection from nothing
• Blockchain or on chain data experience
• Experience in payments, fraud or risk data science
• Having grown a team from a few people to a full department
• A PhD or equivalent research training, or a record of published applied research
• Experience in a regulated environment or with model risk management frameworks

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• 16 weeks fully-paid enhanced parental leave
• Private Health Insurance via Bupa
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance covering 4 times your salary
• Cycle to Work Scheme

About the company

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, providing a platform for extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains. Founded in 2013, it is headquartered in London with global offices.