Data Scientist

Data Scientist

At Optima Partners, we connect business context, advanced analytics and engineering rigour to help organisations solve their most complex challenges and deliver measurable outcomes at speed. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Optima is an AI and data consultancy specialising in transformation across Financial Services & Insurance, Energy, Telecoms and Life Sciences. Backed by significant recent investment from Growth Capital Partners (GCP), we are entering an exciting new phase of growth. This funding accelerates our UK expansion, strengthens our service and innovation propositions and enables further investment in our people, technology and client delivery capabilities.

Are you a client‑focused Data Scientist who enjoys turning complex data into clear actionable insights? At Optima Partners we’re looking for a Data Scientist to help our clients solve real‑world problems using advanced analytics, machine learning and AI. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll work end‑to‑end from discovery through to delivery, shaping solutions that are practical, scalable and aligned to business goals.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading the delivery of high‑impact analytics and data science solutions for our clients
• Applying advanced techniques including machine learning, statistical modelling, NLP and AI
• Owning client engagements and communicating insights clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences
• Collaborating closely with consultants, engineers and analysts across Optima
• Helping evolve Optima Partners’ analytics and AI capability

What we’re looking for

• 3–7 years’ experience in data science within consultancy or a commercial environment
• Strong skills in Python and/or R, SQL and cloud analytics platforms
• Experience with supervised & unsupervised learning, time‑series modelling and NLP
• Familiarity with deep learning and generative AI (LLMs)
• Experience building dashboards in Power BI, Tableau or similar
• A delivery‑focused mindset with strong stakeholder and communication skills

Apply for this role to take real ownership of high‑impact client work, grow your data science career in a fast‑scaling consultancy and shape practical analytics solutions that genuinely make a difference.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary
• Access to company discretionary bonus
• Up to 37 days holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Group life and income protection
• Salary sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Perkbox