Position Overview & Specifications

Data Scientist London based with 1 day in the office About the role At LexisNexis we develop the legal profession’s most innovative products for data analysis, visualization, and research. This is an exciting opportunity to do cutting edge data science in the Legal Tech space, working on a global scale and with one of the largest proprietary corpuses in the industry. We recently launched a new analytics product to make better use of our data, and we are now looking to expand this offering. We are now looking for someone to help accelerate progress on this new and exciting product, finding more ways to help our clients make better decisions through analysing data. We are looking for a talented Data Scientist with expertise in NLP and a curiosity in the Legal sector to help give our customers the best possible experience. In this role you will support this new product by helping the team to add more sources of data, be more intelligent about the analyses we offer, and use data tools to collate, model, interpret, and develop visualisations. As a data scientist on our team, you will work on new product development in a small team environment writing production code in both run-time and build-time environments. You will help propose and build data-driven solutions for high-value customer problems by discovering, extracting, and modeling knowledge from large-scale natural language datasets. You will prototype new ideas, collaborating with other data scientists as well as product designers, data engineers, front-end developers, and a team of expert legal data annotators. You will get the experience of working in a start-up culture with the large datasets and many other resources of an established company. Technical Skills
  • Strong Python programming
  • Formal training in machine learning: dimensionality reduction, clustering, embeddings, and sequence classification algorithms
  • Practical training in Natural Language Processing methods and libraries such as spaCy, word2vec, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Flair, BERT, NLTK, OpenNLP, StanfordNLP
  • Knowledge of AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud platform
  • Understanding of data modeling principles.
  • Ability to work with complex data models.
  • Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. Postgres, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, graph databases such as Neptune or neo4j)
  • Knowledge of Spark, Hadoop, or other distributed computing systems highly preferred
  • Knowledge of API development and machine learning deployment highly preferred
What we are looking for
  • People who want to drive change and transform an industry, who have the curiosity, drive, and passion to succeed in our team
  • Someone with experience working on customer facing, data science products
  • Someone with a strong analytical mindset, who can extract datapoints from a range of sources, both internal and external, and collate these together
  • Someone who is comfortable working with a backend engineer to create the ETL pipeline to automate this process.
  • Someone who can use visualisations and other techniques to draw insights from this data.
  • A thinker who can suggest ideas for new data sources or other areas of expansion.
  • A collaborator who can work closely with the data scientist, UX designers and product manager to build the best possible product for our customers.
  • Someone who is ambitious and wishes to succeed with the potential to work on a variety of different products throughout the organization
  • 2-3 years experience working as a data scientist
  • Interest in the legal system a bonus
Working at LexisNexis Here at LexisNexis we give you the opportunity to work on a full range of challenging and interesting technologies and help to conquer some of the next generation of problems in the practice of law through market-leading legal and tax information. You will get to make a real difference to our customers and society where you will join a growing, diverse, and sociable team of talented people who enjoy regular team building days and dedicated time for innovation. Benefits
  • 25 days leave with option to buy more
  • Private Medical Benefit
  • Company Pension fund contributions starting at 5%
  • Life Assurance options
  • Opportunity to buy shares as well as long service awards
  • Exceptional parental leave options offered as well as childcare scheme
  • 20% of the time in the office is dedicated to studying and self-learning. We also run book clubs alongside this, run by our Principals and Software Engineering Managers.
  • We are investing in our teams and promote a culture of learning. We are committed and encourage self and professional study
  • We are committed in cultivating an environment that promotes diversity and inclusion and you will have the opportunity to join a number of resource groups including: Families @ LNUK, LNUK Pride, Gender Equality Matters, Race Equality and more

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