Contract Data Scientist – Search / Ranking / Recommendation

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London / £400 - £480 day

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Contract Data Scientist - Search Order / Ranking / Recommendation

£480/day | Outside IR35 | 3-4 months | Remote / Hybrid

I'm working with a major consumer travel business looking to bring in a hands-on Data Scientist to support a project focused specifically on search order, ranking and recommendation.

The business manages a large inventory of holiday properties, and the core problem is deciding which properties should appear, in what order, for a given customer search.

This is not a generic Data Science role. Previous experience with search ranking / sort order / recommendation systems is essential.

The role will involve:

  • Improving the search order / ranking logic used to surface properties to customers
  • Building and refining recommendation and ranking models
  • Working across ranking by destination, country, brand, park and individual property / unit level
  • Running A/B tests and experiments to measure the impact of ranking changes
  • Measuring performance against customer and commercial KPIs
  • Analysing how factors such as price, brand, region and country affect sort order performance
  • Building out a broader dashboard / KPI framework
  • Working with behavioural and transactional data
  • Feeding findings and recommendations back to product and business stakeholders

Essential experience:

  • Hands-on experience with search ranking / search order / sort order
  • Hands-on experience with recommendation / recommender systems
  • Strong Python and SQL
  • Snowflake
  • AWS
  • Strong A/B testing / experimentation
  • Experience measuring ranking or recommendation changes against commercial KPIs
  • Strong hands-on Data Science background

Nice to have:

  • Learning-to-rank / re-ranking
  • Metaflow
  • XGBoost / LightGBM
  • Propensity modelling
  • Optimisation
  • PyMC
  • Streamlit
  • Cold-start recommendation
  • Travel, ecommerce, marketplace or booking-platform experience

Contract: 3-4 months
Rate: £480/day
IR35: Outside IR35
Location: Remote / Hybrid

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