Data Scientist

Jumping Rivers is hiring!

About

Jumping Rivers is an analytics company whose passion is data and machine learning. We help our clients move from data storage to data insights.

The company has three key strands: training, data engineering and machine learning consultancy.

We are based in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the Catalyst Building - home to the National Innovation Centre for Data. But half the company is remote. We trust our team to manage their own time. If you want to go for a run in the afternoon and work later, that's fine with us!

If you are based near Newcastle, then you can come into our office.

Benefits

  • Private medical insurance, including dental and optical cover
  • 25 days holiday + statutory holidays
  • Two additional holidays after three years
  • Flexibily holidays; statutory holiday days can be treated as standard holidays.
  • Additional employer pension contribution
  • * Up to £1,000 on the cycle to work scheme
  • Opportunities to attend and present at conferences

We embrace flexibility and remote working. If you want to take Friday afternoon off and work the next day. That's fine. We even allow you to be flexible with Bank holidays. If you want to work on Bank holiday and use that day some other time; that's also fine!

Job Description

We are looking for a Data Scientist who can contribute to the delivery of client projects and provide external training on Data Science courses.

You will work across a range of client engagements, supporting the delivery of high-quality data science solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Client Project Delivery - 70%

  • Contribute to the delivery of data science focused projects for clients

  • Gather and interpret client requirements, helping shape solutions that meet business needs

  • Communicate findings, recommendations, and project updates clearly to stakeholders

  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure successful project outcomes

  • Support the development and improvement of our consultancy’s data science offerings

Training Delivery - 20%

  • Deliver external training sessions on a variety of data science related topics

Internal Infrastructure - 10%

  • Contribute to the maintenance of Jumping Rivers' internal systems, such as R packages, APIs, and dashboards

Preferred Experience

Academic Qualifications:

BSc  in a STEM subject

Skills and Experience:

Technical Skills

Essential

  • 2-3 years’ commercial experience in Data Science

  • Experience creating dashboards using frameworks such as R Shiny / Dash / etc

  • Using Git to effectively manage code

  • Experience in R and/or Python

  • Strong experience in statistics and modelling

Desirable

  • Teaching experience

  • Experience in web technologies, such as Javascript / HTML / CSS

  • Any other related technical experience, e.g. databricks, databases

  • Experience with large language models (LLMs)

Soft Skills

  • Can manage a small project team of 1-5 people

  • Takes initiative and ownership of tasks, and can own delivery of individual work from start to finish

  • Able to tailor communication to technical or non technical audiences

  • Experienced in suggesting process, tooling or delivery improvements

  • Can adapt plans and workload when priorities shift

Recruitment Process

1st stage video call

2nd stage video call

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
  • Experience: > 2 years
  • Possible full remote