Data Scientist - Contract

About Scrumconnect Consulting

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.

About the role

We are looking for a contract Data Scientist to turn complex public sector data into insight that shapes services and decisions. You will analyse data, build models and explain findings clearly to policy, product and technical colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Explore, clean and analyse large and complex datasets.
• Build statistical and machine learning models to answer real business and policy questions.
• Assess data quality and help define data standards and validation rules.
• Create clear visualisations and reports for non-technical audiences.
• Work with data engineers and architects to make models and analysis reproducible.
• Apply responsible and ethical use of data and AI, including bias and explainability.
• Present findings to senior stakeholders and influence decisions.

Essential skills and experience

• Proven experience as a data scientist in a commercial or public sector setting.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, including libraries such as pandas and scikit-learn.
• Solid grounding in statistics and machine learning methods.
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Python libraries.
• Experience using version control (Git) and writing reproducible code.
• Ability to explain technical findings in plain English.

Desirable

• UK government or public sector experience.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or Databricks.
• Experience with natural language processing or generative AI.
• Knowledge of data ethics frameworks and data protection (UK GDPR).

Contract details

• £380-£420 per day, outside IR35.
• BPSS clearance required.
• Fully remote.