Top Data Science Jobs in Edinburgh

Manage the EMEA Security Operations Center within a global 24/7 operation. Responsibilities include defining processes, workflows, and playbooks; maintaining shift coverage and quality assurance; coaching analysts; developing training; partnering with Product, Support, and security teams; improving incident response capabilities; tracking objectives and key results; operationalizing new services; and representing the company in public speaking engagements.

Provides senior geospatial consultancy across environmental and infrastructure projects, including GIS task delivery, map production, spatial analysis, data management, web GIS applications, dashboards, and digital products. Advises clients and colleagues, ensures quality and standards, supports bids and business development, identifies GIS automation and AI opportunities, and mentors junior team members.

Leads flagship AI Labs initiatives from scoping and research through production deployment. Designs and evaluates AI agents and agentic workflows, guides production-grade architecture, establishes quality and safety measurement, and partners with business and engineering stakeholders. Manages and mentors 3–6 AI scientists while communicating technical outcomes to senior leaders and broader audiences.

Lead technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept support for Anaconda’s AI and data science platform across EMEA. Partner with account executives on complex deals, create reusable technical content, represent customer needs to product and engineering, and coordinate with cross-functional teams through implementation handoff. Manage multiple opportunities independently while improving technical win rates, deal expansion, sales velocity, and regional pipeline development.

Lead and develop a Data Science team to deliver scalable ML/AI solutions for an online Personalisation programme, ensuring impactful customer experiences.

Develop and scale NVIDIA Inception’s European startup ecosystem by identifying, technically assessing, recruiting, enabling, and nurturing AI and accelerated-computing startups. The role advises founders and technical leaders on CUDA, NVIDIA SDKs, AI frameworks, GPU infrastructure, and platform adoption; leads technical workshops; translates ecosystem feedback into product insights; collaborates with venture capital firms and internal teams; and supports sales and enterprise customer motions. Travel across Europe is required approximately 40% of the time.

Provides executive scientific and strategic leadership in quantitative clinical pharmacology consulting. Leads Pop-PK, PK-PD, NCA, MIDD, regulatory strategy, trial design, and quantitative decision-making engagements. Develops thought leadership, manages major client relationships, supports business development, mentors quantitative teams, and collaborates with statisticians, software teams, business developers, and data scientists. The role also involves regulatory authority engagement, technical oversight, publications, presentations, and client travel.

Manage and grow relationships with Western Europe e-commerce clients as a trusted advisor. Ensure CDP delivers measurable value, align platform with client strategy, drive adoption, advise on analytics and marketing best practices, and balance client and Bloomreach objectives to create win-win outcomes.

Lead and mentor a data science team building ML and LLM solutions for cybersecurity. Translate business needs into research and production ML objectives, prioritize roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive technical vision, model development, and operationalization for malware detection and threat analysis.

The Head of Data Ops and Systems leads technology infrastructure and data capabilities, ensuring systems are reliable and secure while overseeing data management and compliance.

This role invites speculative applications for various tech positions. Candidates with skills in Salesforce, DevOps, AWS, and user experience are encouraged to apply.

Leads the Payments data strategy and partners with Product, Engineering, and Design to shape payment products, commercial optimization, customer growth, metrics, architecture, and operating models. Builds and scales a high-performing, full-stack data organization spanning data science, analytics engineering, machine learning engineering, and analytics. Serves as a trusted Payments Leadership partner, translating technical, product, and commercial perspectives into high-impact decisions.

Own and prioritise the platform product backlog, work with remote engineering to refine stories and unblock delivery, shape roadmap with leadership, gather and validate requirements with stakeholders/customers, write user stories and acceptance criteria, and balance features, technical debt and operational stability while understanding APIs, data models and integrations.

As the Director of Data Science, you'll mentor teams, oversee projects, drive data-driven decisions, and implement AI and ML solutions while enhancing our data pipeline.

The Senior AI Transformation Consultant works with clients to identify AI opportunities, define robust business cases, and oversee AI project deployments, ensuring solutions deliver value.

The role involves creating research content, providing insights in Analytics and AI, engaging with clients, and mentoring team members. A strong focus on industry trends and effective presentation skills is required.

Lead and grow a Data Science team to deliver end-to-end, scalable ML/AI solutions for online personalisation. Partner with product, engineering and commercial teams to embed models, set standards for agile delivery, testing and model monitoring, and drive innovation to improve customer experiences and business value.

Manage curriculum development for data science and engineering, collaborate with instructors, create content, and drive improvements based on learner feedback.

As a Curriculum Manager, you will manage content development for the data science and engineering curriculum, collaborating with instructors and teams to enhance learning experiences.

Lead and grow a data science team to design, develop, evaluate, and deploy production-grade AI/ML solutions (LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, transformers). Own technical vision, MLOps/LLMOps, model governance, and cross-functional execution with Product and Engineering to deliver scalable business impact in financial markets.

As a Curriculum Manager, you will manage the content development lifecycle, collaborate with instructors, and improve data science curriculum, ensuring technical accuracy and pedagogical effectiveness.

The Curriculum Manager will oversee the content development lifecycle, recruit instructors, design curriculum, assess course performance, and improve data science and engineering content.