Data Scientist

Nine Elms, London - Full-time

As part of our vision, we are seeking a talented Data Scientist to join our dynamic, expanding team. Over the last few years we’ve built a solid data foundation using best in class technologies (dbt, BigQuery, Airflow) and are just at the start of our journey to leverage this data in a more sophisticated way.

About Zapp:

Zapp is London’s leading premium convenience retail platform. Founded in 2020, our vision is to disrupt the multi-trillion dollar convenience retail market, currently dominated by major players, by developing best-in-class customer-centric technology and fulfilment solutions. Zapp partners with some of the world’s leading brands to deliver an exclusive range of hand-picked products 24/7, delivered in minutes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Management: Help business leaders at Zapp understand and prioritise opportunities related to AI/ML

• End-to-End Development and Ownership: Own the lifecycle of new models from concept to deployment and monitoring, and continuously iterate.

• Reporting/Dashboarding

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and implement new features, driving both business and technical excellence.

• Code Quality: Write scalable, maintainable, and high-quality code while adhering to best practices for testing, deployment, and version control.

Essential skills:

• Minimum of 1-2 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist in a commercial setting.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.

• Expertise in Python and developing high-quality, scalable code Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure

• Solid understanding of SQL

• Familiarity with version control (Git) and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).

Desirable skills:

• Past work in retail demand forecasting

• Experience working in a startup environment

• Experience with GCP/Vertex AIent

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity package.

• Enjoy 25 days of holiday per year (plus all bank holidays).

• Private Health Insurance.

• Extended sick pay and maternity/paternity leave pay.

• Cycle to work scheme.

• Flexible/hybrid working arrangement