Data Scientist - ML and Consumer LendingSouth West, UKHybrid working, strong salary dependent on experienceThe clientSouth West based, modern office hub, and a major consumer lending portfolio. This is a chance to join a well known financial services group that is investing heavily in data, Applied Data Science, and Machine Learning to stay ahead of the market and improve how it serves its customers.The business is moving towards cloud native, production grade ML, backed by senior leaders who see Data Science as central to the next chapter of growth. You will sit close to real decision making, working with product, risk, and engineering teams to turn data and ML into tangible customer outcomes.The roleYou will join a growing data science team focused on credit cards and wider consumer lending. Your work will span the full ML lifecycle, from exploratory analysis and model build, through to working with ML Engineers to get models into production and keep them performing as the data strategy matures.The team is open to Data Scientists at different stages, from those looking to build on a first industry role, through to more experienced practitioners who want broader ownership and influence.What you will be doingBuilding and enhancing Python based ML models across the credit card portfolioUsing SQL on large, complex datasets to engineer robust, reusable featuresPartnering with ML Engineers to deploy containerised models and support production ML workflowsWorking with product and