Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist – Product Analytics (Contract) Mostly Remote | Ad-hoc London Travel 6 Month Contract | 💷 Up to £600/day (Inside IR35) We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our product team, focused on enhancing our multi-tenant digital platform for workplace pension members. In this role, you’ll harness data to uncover insights into member behavior, drive personalization, and optimize the experience across a variety of employer-branded portals. Role Summary: You’ll play a key role in shaping the data strategy behind our member-facing products, analyzing engagement patterns, guiding product decisions, and supporting the delivery of tailored pension experiences. With a multi-tenant setup serving diverse employers and user segments, your work will help us better understand member needs, improve outcomes, and deliver on our promise of financial confidence. You’ll play a pivotal role in guiding junior team members and fostering a culture of data excellence across the organization. Key Responsibilities: • Own the development and implementation of data models, analytics frameworks, and experimentation strategies across the platform. • Analyze user journeys and behavioral data across tenants to uncover insights that inform product and engagement strategies. • Develop segmentation and predictive models to support personalization and proactive member engagement based on demographics, behavior, and interaction activities etc. • Design and analyze experiments (A/B testing, cohort studies) to assess feature effectiveness and improve user engagement. • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineering to define KPIs, track product performance, and identify growth opportunities. • Create dashboards and self-serve analytics tools to empower internal teams with real-time insights. • Mentor and coach junior data team members, fostering their growth in analytics, modeling, and communication. • Contribute to and uphold best practices in data quality, governance, and compliance, especially within the financial services sector. Skills & Expertise: • 10+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or related roles—ideally within fintech, pensions, insurance, or employee benefits domains. • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large, complex data sets. • Proficiency in SQL and Python or R, with hands-on experience in machine learning, predictive modeling, and statistical analysis. • Proven experience working directly with product analytics platforms like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar tools. • Experience with data visualization and BI tools (e.g., Looker, Power BI, Tableau). • Solid grasp of statistics, experimentation design, and causal inference techniques. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills—able to influence and align diverse teams. • Demonstrated team leadership or people management experience. Bonus Points for: • Experience working with multi-tenant platforms or white-labelled products. • Understanding of workplace pensions, retirement planning, or financial wellbeing solutions. • Familiarity with event tracking and user behavior tools (e.g., Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment). • Knowledge of privacy regulations and data handling best practices in financial services. If you’re a Senior Product-focused Data Scientist with multi-tenant platform + product analytics + financial services experience, we’d love to hear from you.