Data Scientist, Manager, Digital Innovation

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Deloitte’s Tax Digital Innovation team is a key strategic function within the tax and legal business and includes several future looking capabilities that combined, are helping to drive exciting and innovative growth opportunities. You’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of industry, tax and legal SMEs, technology, and data specialists to provide specialist data science expertise and support on a diverse range of projects with both an internal and client focus.

Your role will be as a Data Scientist within our expanding AI & Data Studio. The role involves working on new and existing projects and products, delivering insights to clients, and utilising data to make smarter, better decisions. You will be responsible for applying data mining techniques, undertaking statistical analysis, deploying cutting edge machine learning tools and techniques, and drawing insights and building predictive models on both structured and unstructured data. This role will involve working on the delivery of key data science driven services and transformation projects.

This role would suit someone who has a passion for keeping up to date with the latest AI research and going from theory to production. You will thrive in a creative and collaborative environment, getting to create novel AI solutions to complex business problems.

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Our Tax and Legal Digital Innovation team is expanding its Data and Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The Data and AI studio supports the Tax and Legal business in researching, building, and delivering analytics and AI-driven solutions to our clients. The team has grown rapidly over the last three years in both size and breadth of services. We need high calibre and motivated individuals to continue that growth and explore market differentiating opportunities across the entire Tax and Legal business.

Our Tax Digital Innovation team has quickly established a strong reputation for being proactive, entrepreneurial, successful, and fun to work with. Working for us will present you with the opportunity to get involved in high-profile projects and will enable you to expand your horizons. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

• Proactively sourcing external structured and unstructured data sets to enhance services and insights
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results from a business-centric perspective
• Building innovative models to classify and predict tax and legal data leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning techniques
• Design, build and test data pipelines for machine learning that are reliable, scalable, and easily deployable
• Take ownership of models, from initial build through to model maintenance, avoiding performance drift over time.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential

• Strong understanding of statistical modelling, supervised/unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
• Can explain how the models work to non-technical audiences, advocating for interpretability and audit best practices.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Proficient in Python, leveraging key data science libraries (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn) and applying object-oriented programming principles to develop efficient, scalable solutions
• Hands-on experience experimenting with Generative AI (e.g. LangChain, Hugging Face, LlamaIndex).
• Experience working with Azure data & AI services such as Azure Machine Learning, Foundry etc.
• Practical experience working in Agile environments and contributing to sprints, stand-ups and backlog refinement
• Experience writing clean, well-structured documentation for models and analytical workflows
• Familiar with version control (Git) and collaborative coding practices.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Evidence of taking R&D theoretical concepts and applying them to business scenarios as needed

Desirable

Experience with/in:

• Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100) certification or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of MLOps/DevOps concepts including model versioning, CI/CD, Automated retraining, lineage and governance.

Connect to your business – Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Tax

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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“I thoroughly enjoy the opportunities and the people I engage with: they enrich my day immensely. Every week throws up new challenges, new risks to assess, new plans to develop." - Montine, Tax

“At Deloitte we work with some of the world’s biggest and most prestigious businesses, because we’re recognised for our expertise and insight. Every challenge, issue or opportunity has tax considerations - and so we give insightful and proactive advice to help clients navigate risk, complexity, and business-critical decisions." - Oliver, Tax

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

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