Job Description The Data Scientist role will be pivotal in ensuring the continuity and growth of AFCA’s AI services and AFCA achieving and implementing its future AI and data roadmaps. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to harness AFCA’s modern data platform and Microsoft services to uncover patterns, trends, and relationships across structured and unstructured data. You’ll build classification, prediction, and optimisation models that deliver tailored, actionable insights. Working with internal teams and external partners, you’ll help deliver sustainable, innovative, and ethical AI solutions that support AFCA’s strategic goals. We currently have two open positions, 1 x permanent and 1 x 12 month contract. Typically in this role, you will: Design, implement, and test analytical models using tools like Azure Databricks, Synapse Analytics, and AI Foundry Lead experiments to compare analytical methods and refine performance Deploy solutions within AFCA’s change management framework and monitor performance over time Participate in requirements workshops and contribute to solution design Collaborate with report developers to communicate insights through reports and visualisations Act as a bridge between business needs and technical delivery Maintain analytics workloads and support continuity of data science services Respond to alerts/outages and escalate as needed Provide project support, including coordination with third-party providers Maintain high-quality documentation (requirements, evaluations, code repositories) Build prompt libraries and guardrails in Azure AI Foundry Define success metrics (accuracy, bias, hallucination rate) and run A/B tests Lead design and evaluation of LLM and RAG-based solutions, including fine-tuning models
