Senior Data Scientist
ITV JobsData Scientist
ITV Insights Group
Permanent / Full Time
Office location\: ITV White City/Media City Manchester/Leeds (Role needs to be based from one of these office locations with hybrid working that includes office presence on a weekly basis)
Your work matters to millions.
When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.
Your impact sends ripples.
The team
ITV is on a mission to Supercharge Streaming and Optimise Broadcast with data and insight right at the centre of our digital transformation strategy. The business faces many challenges ahead to achieve this vision\: What content should we commission? Which audiences are the most commercially attractive for us? What should our marketing strategy be? How do we optimise our product to improve view through rates? How do we use VOD to offset declines to Linear? Whatever the question, the ITV Insights Group is here to lead the business to its most successful future by putting insight, powered by research and data, at the heart of every key decision.
We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the ITV Insight Group. As a Senior Data Scientist in The Insights Group you will have the opportunity to support our various insight domains (e.g., Marketing insights, Content insights), working on a broad range of data science projects.
As part of our Data Science team, you will partner with business leaders and key stakeholders to understand their challenges and identify and answer the “big questions", working with Data Analysts, Insight Managers and Data Engineers to innovate, inform and impact decision-making. You will sharpen your technical skills to create outcome-focused insight while thinking critically and collaboratively to build relationships and create recommendations that balance the requirements of your clients with ITV’s wider strategic objectives.
As a Senior Data Scientist, you are responsible for leading and delivering ML products for your stakeholders, aligned with a cross-functional team and the wider department. This could involve:
- Translating complex business problems into machine learning solutions.
- Influence stakeholders by recommending the best solution for a given business problem
- Researching, designing & training machine learning solutions for your stakeholders
- Creating Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for your stakeholders and productionising successful PoCs on our Data Platform (AWS / Databricks)
- Optimise and maintain existing solutions to improve performance metrics and increase business impact (e.g., Churn & Upsell propensity models)
- Implementing best practice ML model monitoring solutions to ensure your stakeholders receive the highest quality results from their ML products
- Collaborating with a cross functional team including data analysts, data engineers & insight managers
- Being an ambassador for Data Science within The Insights Group (TIG) and across the broader organisation
Join ITV Insights Group, Impact Millions
Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)
- 5+ years experience working in a Data Science role
- Experience designing, developing & productionising ML solutions to solve business problems and drive OKRs / KPIs
- Advanced Python proficiency with experience of key python modules e.g., numpy, pandas, sklearn
- Functional SQL proficiency with the ability to efficiently query relevant data sources (e.g., BigQuery)
- Extensive experience writing production-grade python code (e.g., modular code, dependency management , CI/CD, unit testing, Git/version control)
- Experience with Pyspark and the spark ecosystem
- Ability to independently scope ML product requirements with stakeholders and propose a solution
- In depth knowledge of key statistical concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, probability distributions)
- Experience implementing model monitoring solutions
- Strong communication skills with demonstrated experience leading project presentations to stakeholders; the ability to tell a compelling story through data and explain complex ML concepts to a broad audience
- Experience line managing and/or mentoring data scientists
Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)
- Experience productionising ML models on a cloud platform e.g. AWS or GCP
- Experience working in a cross-functional environment
- Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., tensorflow, keras)
- Passion for learning new skills and staying up-to-date with advances in ML algorithms and Generative AI
- A passion for the TV industry and an interest in the wider Media & Entertainment landscape.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from Deaf, Disabled and/or Neurodivergent people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.
* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:
- Flexible working with a range of options
- Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Competitive pension contribution
- Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
- Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.