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Staff Data Scientist - Geospatial

Relay Technologies· Technology
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London - HybridFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor role focused on owning Relay's geospatial location and movement datasets, defining their build/measures, and evolving data solutions to improve delivery operations. Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Operational Research, and Data Scientists; productionising data products with observability and end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Define how we measure the quality of our geospatial data: identifying gaps, quantifying their impact on the operation, and prioritising improvements.
  • Continuously evolve our location datasets.
  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for Relay's geospatial data solutions.
  • Partner with engineering to productionise and integrate solutions into the delivery operation.
  • Build observability into pipelines so that degradation in data quality is detected, understood, and acted upon.
  • Build reusable data products and define core metrics that add value across the business.
  • Coach and mentor other data scientists on technical approach, production standards, and problem decomposition.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience with geospatial data, telemetry, or GPS trace processing.
  • Love maps and urban geography.
  • Motivation to solve complex problems with high impact.
  • Understanding of end-to-end production data product ownership, including observability, testing, and incident response.
  • Concern for the people affected by data products (couriers, retailers, internal teams).

Skills

Required:Geospatial data handlingProduction data productsObservabilityCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Generous equity, with annual top-ups to share Relay’s success.
  • Private health & dental coverage.
  • 25 days of holidays.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Hardware of your choice.
  • Extensive perks (gym subsidies, cycle-to-work, Friday office lunch, Uber home and dinner for late nights, etc.).
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Relay Technologies

Built for speed, engineered for excellence, designed for growth - turn the final mile into the final 100m.

Relay is a tech-enabled delivery network, empowering businesses to grow and elevate their e-commerce operations.

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