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Sr Data Scientist - FDE - Security Check (SC) Clearance

Microsoft· Data Science
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London£74.7k - £122.6kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Scientist within the Frontier Company Engineering team working with UK Defense and Intelligence, requiring Security Check (SC) clearance. On-site role in London, UK, focusing on AI-powered, cloud-based solutions and production-ready data science work in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model.

Responsibilities

  • Acquire the data necessary for project plans and develop usable data sets for modeling; update internal best practices for data collection and preparation; contribute to data integrity conversations with customers.
  • Evaluate team models, recommend improvements, drive best practices for models, and develop operational models that run at scale; conduct reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques; identify and invent new evaluation methods.
  • Research and maintain knowledge of industry trends and technologies to identify strategy opportunities and contribute to thought leadership; write extensible code spanning multiple features; develop debugging expertise.
  • Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals; partner with other teams to identify and explore new opportunities; apply customer-oriented focus to understand needs and manage expectations.
  • Embody Microsoft culture and values.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's OR Master's OR Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND data-science experience
  • Demonstrated experience or strong interest in working in customer-facing environments
  • Comfortable with travel requirement of approximately 25%

Skills

Required:Data acquisition and preprocessingModel evaluation and deploymentCode quality and debuggingBusiness and solution strategy
Nice to have:Industry trend research and thought leadership

Benefits

  • Competitive package including health, wellness, and financial benefits (country-dependent)
  • Benefits/perks vary by employment type and country; detailed pay information provided for UK
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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