Data Scientist

Tittle: Data Scientist/Data Engineer Rate: £450-£550 Outside IR35 Contract duration: 3 months (Initially) Start date: January start date! I'm working with a cutting-edge tech business building a next-generation data platform, and they're looking for a Data Scientist / Data Engineer to join at a critical early stage. This is a hands-on role working closely with the CTO, owning the design and delivery of end-to-end data pipelines and advanced AI-driven capabilities. You'll be responsible for ingesting and transforming unstructured data, building scalable pipelines, and embedding machine learning, NLP, and semantic search into a modular, cloud-native architecture. Key skills required: • Strong Python for data processing, pipelines, and ML integration • Experience building end-to-end data pipelines (ETL/ELT, orchestration) • Solid knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases (data lakes, metadata, graph models) • Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Experience with distributed data processing (Spark / Flink) • Foundations in machine learning / NLP (embeddings, summarisation, vector search) • Containerised environments using Docker & Kubernetes • Strong focus on data quality, security & Scalability This is a high-impact role where you'll shape core architecture, influence technical direction, and work on genuinely complex data and AI challenges from day one. Our client has a 1 stage interview process and will interview this week for the right candidate! If you're interested in this role, or know someone who would be, then please contact a. methula@io associates.co. uk with your updated CV.