Job description Posted 27 May 2022

Job Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Location: Brentford    

Pay Rate: £716.25 Via Umbrella / Inside IR35

LOA: 6 Months

 

Job Description:

 

GSK Consumer Healthcare is global, and as such we have access to hundreds of data sets where your skills can make a difference. Effective, innovative, scalable and productionised marketing is key to the success of our business. We are looking for candidates who can use their knowledge and creativity to make a meaningful impact. The scale of the challenges you will face are global, and the solutions will be too.

Our organisation is undergoing agile transformation. This role is ideal for a person who can provide leadership and vision to transform the organisation into a product and value-led mindset. You will be confident in working in partnership with senior stakeholders from across the business. You will use your extensive scientific background to discover business value across our extensive data landscape. 

This is a unique opportunity will work alongside a team of highly skilled Data Scientists & Engineers on the transformation of engineering to support AI initiatives. You will be supporting the exploration of cutting edge ML techniques in the marketing and digital-marketing space to discover patterns and predictions to help solve customer needs. You will help lead complex and diverse projects to leverage Data Science techniques which will result in measurable commercial benefit. 

You will also have the opportunity to help build our wider data science community, as we invest in academic partnerships, mentor and apprenticeship schemes. You will be seen as a leader in the machine learning engineering discipline and your thought leadership will command attention in the wider data science community. GSK has long supported the development of its employees and you will be supported to grow and progress in your career.

You will also be excited to champion our Data for Good agenda through sustainable projects and company supported pro-bono charity work. Data ethics are important to us and we are looking for candidates who feel the same way.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Functional Requirements

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you:

  • Contribute to all aspects of the Data Science Project Lifecycle, with a focus on scalable operation and production.
  • Can coordinate and manage competing priorities across a portfolio of projects
  • Provide leadership and guidance on the development and monitoring of ongoing data engineering pipelines and the delivery of ML models from prototypes to production.
  • Own and define the key performance indicators (KPIs) and diagnostics to measure performance against business goals
  • Ability to influence across organisations, proven collaboration skills, comfortable working with ambiguity, ability to make quick, informed decisions taking into account trade-offs.
  • Can conceptualize, formulate, prototype and implement ML pipelines to solve business problems
  • Proven extensive experience developing and implementing Machine Learning engineering pipelines on large data sets

 

Domain Expertise

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you:

  • Have a good working knowledge cloud based and local data science frameworks and toolkits.
  • Are experienced in Agile methodologies and the hypothesis-driven approach
  • Have a deep knowledge of a sufficiently broad area of technical specialism in ML engineering methodology and best practices and are a valued and trusted expert
  • Have a practical experience productionising machine learning, Deep Learning and natural language understanding/processing models
  • Experience with Azure.