Top Data Jobs in Edinburgh

The Assistant Professor will develop an internationally recognised research programme, publish impactful work, secure external funding, and build industry partnerships. Responsibilities include designing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, curriculum development, student assessment, PhD supervision, mentoring, knowledge transfer, enterprise, outreach, and departmental administration. The role also involves contributing to equality, diversity, inclusion, strategic initiatives, and a supportive academic community.

Own enterprise customer programs from contract signature through expansion, leading delivery teams, milestones, stakeholder communication, adoption, and change management. Partner with sales and customer success to scope engagements, identify expansion opportunities, and translate executive goals into executable AI implementation plans. Serve as the customer advocate internally while guiding solutioning across model development, deployment, governance, and enterprise data science workflows.

Supports Finance and Go-To-Market departments by designing data recording systems, monitoring data quality, enforcing governance, analyzing large datasets, producing concise reports, and recommending process improvements. The role translates complex findings into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders and supports Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success objectives.

Lead a team of 10 Data Security Specialist Account Executives across EMEA and APJ. Responsibilities include recruiting and coaching sales talent, managing regional business plans and forecasts, collaborating with sales, marketing, product, services, and partners, and driving revenue attainment. The role requires software or security sales experience, data security leadership, regional management, C-level selling, and familiarity with AI/ML technologies.

Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, Bayesian marketing analysis, machine learning, NLP, LLM applications, and classifier implementation. Build growth metrics, monitoring pipelines, evaluation datasets, and AI trigger systems across search and Duck.ai. Analyze privacy-constrained data, deploy production-grade models, optimize SQL queries, and lead complex projects from scoping through production with minimal direction.

Analyze large-scale security telemetry, threat intelligence, endpoint, and detection data to identify trends, anomalies, and emerging threats. Build dashboards, reports, data pipelines, and KPI frameworks using SQL, Python, LogScale, or similar tools. Collaborate with data engineering, product, and engineering teams to ensure data quality and translate complex findings into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead SFC’s data architecture function by defining enterprise and domain data models, architecture principles, standards, governance, and design assurance. Provide technical leadership on cloud data platforms, integration, interoperability, metadata, lineage, and master data. Advise senior stakeholders, manage architectural risks and technical debt, build consensus across teams, and coach colleagues to improve data architecture capability and adoption.

Builds and configures Medidata Rave EDC databases for clinical trials, including eCRF packages, form dynamics, edit checks, custom functions, coding, migrations, integrations, and technical specifications. Collaborates with clinical data management and scientific teams, provides subject-matter expertise for complex builds, trains junior staff, and contributes to process and system improvements. Requires at least five years of EDC database-building experience, advanced custom-function programming, clinical trial experience, and knowledge of GCP/ICH and CDASH.

Leads delivery of a North American data centre project portfolio, providing executive oversight, governance, risk management, performance assurance, client engagement, and corrective action. The role develops delivery leaders, coordinates resources and capabilities across dispersed teams, improves consistency and quality, and sponsors programmatic delivery improvements for large-scale technology infrastructure projects.

Lead electrical design and technical delivery for hyperscale and mission‑critical data centre projects across feasibility to handover. Define power architectures, perform power systems and protection studies (ETAP/SKM), integrate BMS/EPMS/SCADA and metering, embed decarbonization and energy efficiency measures, ensure compliance with standards, and coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces while mentoring teams and supporting business development.

Lead B2B product marketing strategy for DataCamp’s data and AI SaaS offerings. Responsibilities include developing positioning and messaging, executing go-to-market campaigns, creating sales and marketing collateral, gathering customer insights, managing analyst relations, and conducting competitive analysis. The role partners closely with sales, customer success, product, and content teams to drive revenue, adoption, and market impact.

Monitors and maintains client asset and securities data, validates accuracy against market sources, evaluates data vendors, and supports reference data products. The role responds to data inquiries, documents workflows, performs basic SQL analysis, maintains real-time investment data, ensures risk and control compliance, and analyzes information flows between accounting and custody systems. It also develops expertise in fixed income, equities, corporate bonds, and related investment processes.

Develops statistical, machine learning, and natural language processing models using consumer and market data to identify emerging risks and consumer harm. Builds scalable analytical solutions, automated workflows, dashboards, and reporting tools for regulatory decision-making. Validates explainable methodologies, supports data governance and compliance, and communicates insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leads Ofcom’s research innovation and data strategy, overseeing statistics, analytics, behavioural research, innovative research methods, and programme management. The role develops responsible data and AI capabilities, improves access to insight, strengthens cross-organisational collaboration, manages senior teams and budgets, and represents Ofcom externally. It requires strategic leadership, advanced data science and research expertise, data ethics knowledge, programme management, change leadership, and the ability to communicate complex analysis to regulatory, policy, commercial, and external stakeholders.

Provide technical expertise to Scottish local authorities and climate partners; support climate-plan tracking through ClimateView; analyze Scotland-wide datasets for policy insights; identify best practices; coordinate climate-action delivery; lead workstreams; and help develop data services. The role also supports measuring the wider economic and social impacts of climate action.

Develop and optimize Supabase’s Data API based on PostgREST. Responsibilities include improving the PostgreSQL driver and performance, developing features, fixing bugs, resolving incidents and escalated support issues, improving observability, and debugging integrations across the Supabase platform. The role requires strong Haskell development, PostgreSQL and SQL expertise, Linux debugging, open-source contribution, and technical user support.

Manage daily Data team operations, research and analyze datasets, build internal and external reports (including an annual Startup Ecosystem Ranking), and maintain/improve Python scripts and data infrastructure to deliver actionable insights.

Leads platform-level execution of software and AI/ML systems across multiple teams. Oversees shared infrastructure, development tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud cost optimization, architecture, and system integration. Manages the full software development lifecycle, tracks engineering metrics, mentors engineers and managers, and aligns technical priorities with business goals. The role supports scalable, secure, high-availability data and intelligence platforms while driving continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

Transforms workforce data into commercially relevant insights supporting business performance and strategic decisions. Develops dashboards, management information, analytical products, automation, and AI-enabled insights. Analyzes workforce trends, risks, and opportunities; partners with stakeholders to define business questions and recommend actions. Also supports data quality, governance, visualization, storytelling, and continuous improvement across people analytics.

Lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle of data, analytics, and AI-enabled products. Identify commercial opportunities, develop pricing and business cases, manage budgets, and drive product profitability. Partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Commercial teams to deliver scalable solutions. Lead and develop Data Product Managers while influencing senior stakeholders and translating technical capabilities into customer and business value.

Conduct cardiovascular and renal epidemiology research using large linked NHS datasets. Responsibilities include data management, cleaning and curation, data-linkage study design, advanced analytics, statistical modelling, collaboration with clinical researchers, student guidance, and eventual team leadership of epidemiologists and data scientists.

Designs and delivers trusted investment data products, reusable data models, semantic structures, quality controls, lineage, and documentation. Partners with investment, risk, analytics, engineering, and architecture teams to translate investment requirements into practical data solutions. Supports Snowflake platform evolution, evaluates investment datasets and vendors, and enables data consumption through BI, applications, APIs, and AI-enabled channels.

Leads reward data and analytics for global Pay Transparency Directive compliance. Responsibilities include pay-gap analysis, statistical assessment, data validation, statutory reporting, remediation modelling, Syndio administration, governance, audit documentation, and operational transition. Partners with Reward, Payroll, HR Technology, Legal, Privacy, Finance, and country stakeholders to ensure accurate, repeatable, compliant, and explainable reporting across multinational operations.

Analyze complex education-related datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities; develop dashboards, reports, and visualizations; and translate findings into actionable recommendations. The role supports education quality assurance, regulatory monitoring, performance reporting, data governance, and evidence-based decision-making. It involves integrating internal and external data, analyzing Microsoft Dynamics 365 information, improving reporting methods, and collaborating with stakeholders across education, technology, and regulatory teams.

Collect, research, validate, and maintain global power and renewables datasets covering power plants, data centers, renewable projects, financials, transactions, tenders, and policies. The role ensures data integrity through regulatory and industry-source analysis, collaborates across international teams, meets project timelines, and improves data-collection workflows and quality standards.