Senior Data Scientist - SC Cleared Location: London - 1 - 2 days per week onsite Rate: £650 - £750 per day (Inside IR35) Contract: 6 months initially, long term programme Start: ASAP Clearance: Active SC Clearance requiredThe Opportunity We''re looking for a Senior Data Scientist with strong engineering skills to join a major government programme. You''ll work on a large-scale data matching platform that supports national security outcomes, improving its accuracy, performance and reliability in production.This role suits someone who is as comfortable working in AWS, Kubernetes and the command line as they are analysing data. Direct matching experience isn''t essential. If you''ve worked on classification, deduplication, fraud detection, search or similar problems where precision and recall matter, we''d like to hear from you.Key ResponsibilitiesAnalyse and improve the performance of a production data matching platformBuild, test and deploy data-driven improvements to matching logicWork across AWS and Kubernetes environments, automating with Bash and PythonImprove accuracy and reduce false positives to increase operational efficiencyPartner with engineering teams to take improvements into productionSupport performance testing and ongoing optimisationEssential Skills andamp; ExperienceStrong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn)Hands-on AWS experienceKubernetes and Docker in a production settingConfident with Bash Scripting and LinuxSolid SQL and experience with large ..... full job details .....