JOB SUMMARY

This is an exciting opportunity to use your data science skills for the public good and join the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as a data scientist within its Data, Technology and Insights Directorate. The directorate is a multidisciplinary team that brings together data scientists, data engineers, technologists, behavioural scientists and digital forensics and eDiscovery experts. It provides the CMA with specialist skills and capabilities to keep pace with fast-moving digital markets, rapidly developing business models and the growing use of data and algorithms.
The CMA is a world-leading competition authority at the forefront of tackling pressing public policy questions, including the regulation of the biggest digital markets. Our mission is to make markets work well in the interests of consumers, businesses, and the economy.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Data Scientist, you will work with senior team members on the technical delivery of data science and analysis projects to support CMA legal cases. You will contribute to scoping projects and designing their data science solutions and assist in identifying competition and consumer protection issues that the CMA could address using data science methods
You will develop data science tools to support the functions of the CMA, produce “production” code in Python (other languages such as R or SQL might be used as needed) and assist other team members with regular code reviews.
Working within a multi-disciplinary case team, you will write and present the output of analyses to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and develop strong working relationships across the CMA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be assessed against the Digital, Data and Technology profession capability framework. Specifically, you will assessed against the Junior Data Scientist capability framework. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/data-scientist#junior-data-scientist

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

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