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Job Title: Senior Data Scientist
Agency: Public Health Wales
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom, Wales
Salary/Rate: 48,527 – 55,532 £ / Year

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Job Summary

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NHS Wales Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate as a Senior Data Scientist. You will be joining an innovative and award-winning team that is passionate about delivering value within NHS Wales, offering insights to the wider system by triangulating patient outcomes, financial data, and healthcare activity, supporting financial sustainability and improvement across the system.

As the profile and reputation of the Directorate have grown since its inception, so has the demand for its expertise and insight.

It is an exciting time for individuals with drive and ambition to join the team with a growing work programme, agenda, and opportunity to make a difference within NHS Wales.

Main duties of the job

This post sits within the Financial Planning & Delivery directorate of NHS Wales Performance and Improvement.

In order to support the provision of insightful information, we have developed an Analytics Centre of Excellence, leading the development of high-quality products that provide insight and intelligence to a wide range of stakeholders, including finance professionals, clinicians, operational teams, and boards. We are seeking to expand this team through the recruitment of dedicated informatics professionals to work alongside our business analysts.

Our work programme is focused on the following six themes:-

  • Intelligence and Insight;
  • Support and Challenge;
  • Value-Based Healthcare
  • Best Practice Financial Management
  • Planning and Monitoring;
  • Leadership & Development;

The Senior Data Scientist will play a pivotal role in:

  • Navigating and linking big data sets
  • Producing high-quality data visualisations to demonstrate variation and highlight key themes and messages
  • Maximising innovative opportunities around predictive analytics and forecasting
  • Developing innovative solutions to complex problems
  • Quality assuring and validating data; and
  • Delivering high-profile projects and contributing to the delivery of our work streams.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant experience to Master’s degree level or equivalent professional experience.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

  • Project management qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in linking complex data sets to derive meaningful analysis.
  • Experience in validating and quality assuring outputs.
  • Experience in statistical analysis of highly complex information.
  • Experience in planning workload independently and project management skills
  • Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales.
  • Experience and understanding of data quality issues (including resolution of such issues).
  • Significant experience with databases/data modelling tools within an information environment.
  • Experience in providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers.

Desirable

  • Experience in providing specialist advice on highly complex information issues
  • Experience in using business intelligence tools to provide meaningful insight to a range of audiences.
  • Experience in using Microsoft Power BI and Power Automate.
  • Experience in machine learning and statistical modelling, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and time-series forecasting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 15 March 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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