Principal Data Scientist

The role

You will drive high impact transformation within the Defence team by taking ownership of complex machine learning delivery and sector specific strategy. You will lead project scoping, technical selling, and client management to deliver AI solutions.

What you will do

• Owning and growing a strategic portfolio of machine learning work specifically tailored to the Defence sector
• Translating client challenges into technical roadmaps by leading project scoping, delivery, and client engagement
• Writing exemplary, production grade code to set technical standards on most sophisticated delivery projects
• Serving as a technical authority on machine learning across Faculty
• Representing capabilities within the wider community
• Partnering with commercial and delivery teams to drive technical selling, pitching, and business growth
• Mentoring and guiding junior data scientists through complex problem solving, technical planning, and execution

Required qualifications

• Deep domain expertise within Defence or other industries
• Prior direct management experience
• Broad knowledge across a range of machine learning techniques
• Experience building Generative AI and agentic AI applications with Large Language Models
• Advanced coding skills in Python
• Proven experience building and maintaining scalable codebases
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions based on time, resources, and complexity
• Engaging communicator who builds trust with senior stakeholders and technical counterparts

About the company

Faculty was established in 2014 to transform performance through human-centric AI. They work with over 350 global customers across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence.