Data Scientist, Manager, Digital Innovation

Basic information

Location

London

Business Line

Tax & Legal

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

20-Apr-2026

Req #

23115

Job description

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Deloitte’s Tax Digital Innovation team is a key strategic function within the tax and legal business and includes several future looking capabilities that combined, are helping to drive exciting and innovative growth opportunities. You’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of industry, tax and legal SMEs, technology, and data specialists to provide specialist data science expertise and support on a diverse range of projects with both an internal and client focus.

Your role will be as a Data Scientist within our expanding AI & Data Studio. The role involves working on new and existing projects and products, delivering insights to clients, and utilising data to make smarter, better decisions. You will be responsible for applying data mining techniques, undertaking statistical analysis, deploying cutting edge machine learning tools and techniques, and drawing insights and building predictive models on both structured and unstructured data. This role will involve working on the delivery of key data science driven services and transformation projects.

This role would suit someone who has a passion for keeping up to date with the latest AI research and going from theory to production. You will thrive in a creative and collaborative environment, getting to create novel AI solutions to complex business problems.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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Our Tax and Legal Digital Innovation team is expanding its Data and Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The Data and AI studio supports the Tax and Legal business in researching, building, and delivering analytics and AI-driven solutions to our clients. The team has grown rapidly over the last three years in both size and breadth of services. We need high calibre and motivated individuals to continue that growth and explore market differentiating opportunities across the entire Tax and Legal business.

Our Tax Digital Innovation team has quickly established a strong reputation for being proactive, entrepreneurial, successful, and fun to work with. Working for us will present you with the opportunity to get involved in high-profile projects and will enable you to expand your horizons. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

• Proactively sourcing external structured and unstructured data sets to enhance services and insights

• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

• Performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results from a business-centric perspective

• Building innovative models to classify and predict tax and legal data leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning techniques

• Design, build and test data pipelines for machine learning that are reliable, scalable, and easily deployable

• Take ownership of models, from initial build through to model maintenance, avoiding performance drift over time.

• Perform constant tracking of performances

• Clearly and confidently articulate the value and benefits of delivering analytics projects to clients

• Working closely with Tax and Legal SMEs to build a deep understanding of business/client challenges and in the development of Proof of Concepts

• Share, communicate and develop bespoke AI solutions.

• Drive automation and optimisation of business workflows, helping clients to drive efficiency.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential

• Strong understanding of statistical modelling, supervised/unsupervised machine learning algorithms.

• Can explain how the models work to non-technical audiences, advocating for interpretability and audit best practices.

• Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets.

• Proficient in Python, leveraging key data science libraries (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn) and applying object-oriented programming principles to develop efficient, scalable solutions

• Hands-on experience experimenting with Ge