Position Overview & Specifications

Welcome to Coral - the startup making wholesale a whole lot better.

Independent retailers, from corner shops to cafes, depend on wholesalers to stock their shelves. It's a £58bn/year industry in the UK alone – and at Coral, we're building technology to make it work much better for everyone

It's a fascinating challenge, from on-demand delivery to AI-powered product suggestions. But the rewards might just be huge, too, as retailers around the world switch to us for their wholesale needs.

So if you're a natural problem-solver keen to apply their talents to a fast-growing start-up, come join us.

Wanted: Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

Work with the Head of AI and Data to ideate and scope AI and Data solutions that can address company needs in the timeframe required
Build solutions that meet the agreed upon outputs
Manage the delivery of the solution, where required, with colleagues and more junior members of the team
Line manage, mentor, and develop up to 3 mid-level data scientists (as the company grows)
Communicate the current capabilities of our AI and Data solutions to the rest of the business in a way that can be understood by a wide audience
Update the wider technical team of Coral frequently about the state of projects, the path to completion, and any requirements that may prevent progress.
Work collaboratively with the Data Engineering team to put solutions into development, and on coding optimisations that are suggested and agreed upon.
Be an advocate for the AI and Data capabilities within Coral, as well as pushing for continued development, whilst balancing the needs of the AI and Data team.

Key Skills:

Python
AWS - ETL Processes (Glue, Lambda etc.), ECS, S3, Database Solutions (Redshift, RDS)
Git
SQL
Project Management
Communication
Line Management Experience (or a desire to do so)
NLP
Unstructured Data Collection and Processing

Since this is a priority hire for us, so to speed up the process we would appreciate if you could provide us with an example piece of work/coding portfolio i.e. GitHub etc.