Data Scientist

Welcome to an exciting opportunity where ambitious individuals are invited to join a team of inquisitive minds and supportive peers, all driven by a shared passion and diverse skills aimed at creating value for businesses through data.  

About Us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.  

We specialize in software development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and application modernization. 

We collaborate with clients across various industries, including smart home devices, space exploration, finance, and logistics. We employ sharp minds. 

At Ascent, we foster collaboration and hire individuals near our offices in Bristol and London to cultivate a positive atmosphere. We welcome applicants from all areas in the UK, valuing diversity. Join us to enhance collaboration and inclusivity. 

About the role

Shiny Developers are part of the Data Science practice that inherits our high standards and consistency. We apply best in breed enterprise grade practices to ensure the performance and supportability of our applications, while keeping obsessed with user experience and best practices in data communication. We apply Shiny application for appropriate use cases at the right data maturity level, and make sure organisations get the most out of Shiny. 

 
Responsibilities

As a Data Scientist specialised in Shiny development, you will have these responsibilities: 

• Become a trusted consultant for the customer, and go beyond a "developer" or "engineer" mindset in all engagements  
• Advise customer on technical solutions to business problems, actively identifying gauging gaps in customer's capabilities, capacity to inform account approach  
• Implement complex Shiny solutions and support end-to-end pipelines  
• Challenge solution design and methodology with innovative ideas  
• Apply Software development discipline and computational efficiency in project delivery  
• Plan and estimate for delivery, support project management from the technical perspective  
• Advocate for DevOps skills, disciplines and principles  
• Ownership of at least parts of deliverables, including definition of success, implementation, quality control and presentation of output  
• Main contributor to internal asset build (PoC, Assets)  

 
Requirements

A successful candidate will demonstrate these traits:

• Curious and inquisitive 
• Thoughtful 
• Consultative and business-minded 
• Detail orientated 
• Pragmatic approach to problem-solving 
• Sense of responsibility and ownership 
• Critical and constructive thinking 
• Logical and methodical reasoning 
• Communicate with clarity and purpose 

And must have these skills:

• 3+ years of Shiny development focused data scientist
• Highly fluent in R and Shiny, proficiency in Python is desirable 
• Highly confident in modular approach to development 
• Shiny app structure frameworks such as golem 
• Various front end frameworks R packages, Fluent UI is a plus 
• R package development 
• Advanced Shiny topics, including profiling, testing, performance tuning and deployment patterns 
• Daily use of git 
• CI/CD for testing and app deployment 
• Data visualisation techniques 
• Fluent in SQL for analysis; DBA experience is desirable 

And nice to have these skills:

• HTML / CSS 
• JavaScript (React.js or other frameworks) 
• Information Theory 
• Clinical trial data and use cases are desirable 
• Cloud platforms, Azure is desirable 
• Docker and other software development experience 
• Data architecture knowledge 
• API design and deployment 
• Big data (e.g. Spark) 
• NoSQL DB 

Qualifications 

• 3+ years of a dedicated Shiny developer role 
• Right to work in the UK and/or EU 
• Azure Data Science Associate - Certificate is desirable 

 
Working at Ascent 

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work.  We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.  

Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries. 

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.