Data Scientist

2 Weeks ago • All levels • Data Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Scientist role within Blenheim Chalcot and Oakbrook involves designing and maintaining internal decision engine capabilities. The role requires collaborating with stakeholders to provide strategic solutions, including building dashboards and reports, managing projects, and ensuring accurate deliverables. The ideal candidate should thrive in a team environment, possess exceptional communication skills, and be comfortable with change and uncertainty. The role involves project management, implementation of decision engine changes, deploying and monitoring decision engines, unit and integration testing, and working closely with the dev team. Experience in R/Python, Power BI, automated testing, technical documentation, and financial services decision engines is required.
Must have:
  • Skilled using R/Python programming languages.
  • Experience with producing reports in Power BI.
  • Automated testing, particularly unit testing.
  • Experience with GitHub.
Good to have:
  • Dev Ops experience.
  • Decision engine experience within financial services.
  • Experience with MongoDB.
  • Experience with Containerisation, particularly with Docker and Kubernetes.
Perks:
  • Be part of the World’s Leading Digital Venture Builder.
  • Opportunity to learn from the incredible diverse talent.
  • Exposed to challenges, with continuous learning and development.
  • 24 days of annual leave & 10 public holiday days.
  • Private Medical for you and your immediate family & Life Insurance for yourself.

Job Details

The role

The Data Scientist is a vital role within the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio and Oakbrook. This is a leading role in the ongoing development of a world class consumer lending business that is aiming to change lending for the better by becoming the UK’s most trusted and responsible fintech business. Every day we innovate together to provide tailored, affordable, and simple products that people can easily manage and understand. 

The R programmer role has been created to design, build, maintain, and support our internal decision engine capabilities (built using R) to meet defined business needs and to accommodate technical considerations in balance with business requirements within the roadmap. Ensuring that the decision engine is advanced and capable of enabling us to deliver our growth ambitions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Working closely with a wide number of stakeholders (product owners, analysts, Data scientists, senior leadership team etc) to provide strategic solutions.
  • Broad thinking, solutions are in context of the business Communication within the team and external, able to engage with people with different skillsets from around the business Presentation and documentation skills
  • Awareness of the influence you have on the business & the power of your voice,

set the tone for the team (positive, enthusiastic) 

  • Open to being challenged & flexible in approach – bringing people on a journey
  • Drive the team to make commitments and to deliver against them
  • Build dashboards and reports to monitor key performance

KPIs & Deliverables:

Dashboards & Reporting:

  • Deliver clear, accurate monitoring of performance of all Oakbrook’s decision engines 

Programming and Delivery:

  • Project management
  • Implementation of decision engine changes
  • Deploying and monitoring of decision engines
  • Unit and Integration Testing of decision engines
  • Working closely with dev team to deliver larger projects
  • Assisting dev team with wider testing
  • Suggesting and making improvements to code base

Quality & Communication:

  • Ensure all deliverables are accurate and error-free.
  • Present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

About you

The ideal candidate will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.

Technical and or professional experience required to be successful in the role:

Technical Skills

  • Skilled using R/Python programming languages, with a willingness to learn other languages
  • Experience with producing reports in Power BI
  • Automated testing, particularly unit testing
  • Technical documentation
  • Dev Ops
  • Decision engine experience within financial services
  • MongoDB
  • Containerisation, particularly with Docker and Kubernetes
  • SQL
  • Some understanding of data science / credit risk (the role holder will work closely with these teams)
  • Experience with GitHub
  • Experience with Atlassian suite
  • Experience with Octopus deploy

Non-Technical Skills 

  • Must be intellectually curious with a passion for making data driven decisions
  • Thrive in a team environment
  • Exceptional Communication and Interpersonal Skills
  • Strong time management skills
  • Discretion when dealing with confidential information
  • Self-motivated and proactive
  • Keen eye for detail
  • Resilient — able to respond to challenges of tech delivery
  • Monitors performance against deadlines and milestones and does what is needed to get the job done
  • Probes for greater understanding of a problem
  • Accepts new ideas and change initiatives, easily let’s go of the past and is willing to adapt to change
  • Ability to influence and constructively challenge
  • Understands business objectives and priorities beyond own area of work
  • Plans and organizes self/team well

About Blenheim Chalcot

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. We have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 26 years across sectors including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. These companies are all GenAI enabled and are some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world.

The BC team in India has been instrumental to the growth and success of Blenheim Chalcot. Established in 2014, Blenheim Chalcot India serves as a pivotal launchpad for those aiming to make a difference in the realm of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Blenheim Chalcot India is driven by a mission to empower visionaries to lead, innovate, and build disruptive solutions. We support our diverse portfolio of ventures and create impactful solutions that shape global trends. We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax, plus so much more!

One of our FinTech ventures, Oakbrook, is scaling fast and we’re looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to support them on that journey!

About Oakbrook

Founded in 2011, Oakbrook has united experts in consumer lending, advanced analytics, and innovative technology, all driven by the belief that consumer lending can be more personalized and customer centric. The collective mission across our three companies is to simplify and tailor the borrowing experience. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, data, and analytics, we provide fairer access to credit that reflects each customer’s unique circumstances, moving beyond outdated models that rely on averages and backward-looking assessments. Our goal is to create a more inclusive, individualized approach to lending.

What we can offer you

  • Be part of the World’s Leading Digital Venture Builder
  • Have the opportunity to be a part of and learn from the incredible diverse talent in BC
  • Be exposed to the right mix of challenges, within a culture that promotes continuous learning and development and opportunity to work with Gen AI
  • A fun and open, if a little cricket obsessed, atmosphere – we own the Rajasthan Royals IPL team!
  • 24 days of annual leave &10 public holiday days
  • Private Medical for you and your immediate family & Life Insurance for yourself

Important

At Blenheim Chalcot, we strive to create an environment where differences are not only accepted but greatly valued; where everyone can make the most of their capabilities and potential. We promote meritocracy, competence and the sharing of ideas and opinions. We are driven by data and believe the diversity, agility, generosity, and curiosity of our people is what sets us apart as an organization. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talent.

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About The Company

Blenheim Chalcot India is part of Blenheim Chalcot a global venture builder headquartered in the vibrant Scale Space campus in White City, London. With over 26 years of innovation, we've been at the forefront of creating some of the most groundbreaking GenAI-enabled companies. Our ventures lead the charge in digital disruption across a spectrum of industries, from FinTech to EdTech, GovTech to Media, and beyond. Our global presence spans the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with a portfolio that employs over 3,000 individuals, manages assets exceeding £1.8 billion, and boasts total portfolio sales of over £500 million.


At Blenheim Chalcot, we're more than venture capitalists; we're venture builders. We invest not only funds but also our wealth of knowledge, experience, and innovative ideas. We provide our ventures with the essential infrastructure and support they need to grow from start-up to scale to exit. Our entrepreneurs and co-founders benefit from access to global networks and business development services, enabling them to scale rapidly. Our digital expertise empowers big businesses to become more agile, while their global reach accelerates our ventures' growth.


Our mission is to be a great place for great people to become great entrepreneurs. We understand that in today's rapidly evolving business landscape, staying ahead requires constant upskilling and adaptability. Through our learning initiative, RedTeam, we offer comprehensive training programmes in a dynamic atmosphere, empowering our team members to tackle challenges head-on, expand their knowledge, and develop their skillset.


We're committed to transforming our ventures into profitable, sustainable businesses that revolutionise industries. Our ventures are designed to adapt to emerging customer behaviours and needs, ensuring that Blenheim Chalcot remains at the cutting edge of innovation. Join us and be part of nurturing the next generation of AI businesses that are prepared to reshape the world

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