Data jobs in Edinburgh

What you would do

• Manage and continually improve the management system supporting ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 requirements.
• Plan and deliver internal audits, track actions and support teams to drive improvements.
• Coordinate external certification and surveillance audits.
• Develop and maintain SHEQ dashboards, reports and performance metrics.
• Analyse quality, environmental and compliance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Maintain legal and compliance registers and monitor changes in legislation and standards.

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What you would do

• Lead discovery workshops and requirements gathering with stakeholders.
• Design end-to-end AI solution architectures for Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Automation initiatives.
• Define system integration patterns across enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and cloud services.
• Create technical architecture diagrams, solution designs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Evaluate AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks to recommend best-fit solutions.
• Advise clients and internal stakeholders on AI adoption strategies and use cases.

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• Define and own data engineering architecture patterns (migration frameworks, streaming architectures, data integrity standards, Lakehouse design) across client engagements.
• Act as senior technical authority, making architecture decisions and resolving design disputes.
• Review and sign off technical designs from Lead and Senior engineers.
• Drive adoption of new tooling, patterns, and cloud services.
• Lead technical design and execution of large-scale data migrations from on-premises or legacy cloud to modern cloud platforms.
• Architect real-time and near-real-time data pipelines with demanding latency and correctness requirements.

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• Undertake a three-year PhD project within the ECAT Clinical Lectureship programme, developing a competitive PhD fellowship application for institutional or external PhD funding.
• Complete a lead-in year (0.2 FTE) for supervisor selection and PhD project planning.
• Engage in clinical practice (0.8 FTE) and academic activity up to CCT + six months.
• Contribute to research training and clinical research within the Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme.

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• Design, build and maintain data models and analytical structures for Census and population data.
• Translate data architecture designs into implementable data models and transformation pipelines.
• Define and apply standards for structuring, transforming and quality-assuring census data.
• Develop schema designs for efficient querying and analysis of large-scale demographic datasets.
• Deliver data integration and linkage with administrative data sources.
• Implement estimation, aggregation and geographic data structures to support statistical outputs.

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What you would do

• Onboard new customers from kick-off to confident, active use of the product (enablement process).
• Answer customer support questions as first point of contact, seeing each through to resolution.
• Manage the shared customer inbox: triage, respond, route, and follow up.
• Drive product adoption by identifying dormant users, running training sessions, and sharing best practices.
• Act as voice of the customer, feeding insights back to product and commercial teams.
• Coordinate training schedules, follow-ups, and customer communications.

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• Support the Senior Marketing Planning Lead in delivering an effective and integrated marketing planning function.
• Maintain, coordinate and govern the marketing plan.
• Apply brand governance and regulatory requirements to ensure outputs align with Group standards.
• Contribute to cross-functional projects across Group Brand & Marketing, Channel Marketing and Corporate Affairs & Brand.
• Use AI-enabled tools to enhance content planning, social analytics and productivity.
• Support continuous improvement of operational planning and efficiency.

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What you would do

• Lead AI adoption, value, and benefits tracking across the AI SDLC programme.
• Develop and maintain management information, reporting, and actionable insights.
• Provide clear CIO-level reporting and visibility of programme performance.
• Define and enhance measurement frameworks, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish reporting standards and data quality controls.
• Support governance processes through meaningful analysis and recommendations.

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What you would do

• Act as a subject matter expert in XDR, web proxying and security analytics, delivering security projects protecting the bank and its customers.
• Work at a domain level to ensure robust security is continuously considered across the project lifecycle, from shaping and requirements capture through design, delivery and in-service adoption.
• Collaborate with feature teams, participating in story refinement, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Make decisions based on robust data, ROI and value measures.
• Encourage identification of ideas and drive delivery of initiatives that reduce cost and simplify the bank.
• Build and leverage relationships with colleagues across the bank and third parties to ensure commercially focused decisions.

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What you would do

• Deliver accurate, timely, and complete data across supported data domains including pricing, static data, instruments, companies, index data, income, and reference data.
• Manage data requests and mailbox queries through to resolution.
• Perform data quality checks, reconciliations, and validations in line with procedures and controls.
• Apply data governance and risk policies as defined by internal frameworks.
• Maintain audit evidence and operational records.
• Identify and escalate data quality issues, risks, or control breaches.

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• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality experiences that drive desired outcomes.
• Build out product-led growth (PLG) strategy in partnership with Product, Monetisation, Marketing and Commercial teams.
• Run experiments to increase targeted outcomes and share learnings across the company.
• Partner with analytics and research to understand what drives outcomes and act as subject matter expert.
• Contribute to the continuous development of the overarching growth product strategy.
• Own the product roadmap and backlog, aligning them with business goals and customer needs.

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What you would do

• Own the annual campaign roadmap and deliver integrated campaigns supporting growth, engagement, conversion and pipeline objectives.
• Translate business priorities into multi-channel plans across content, email, paid social, webinars, events, sales enablement and digital activity.
• Create coordinated campaigns and audience journeys with Product Marketing, Content, Brand, Events, Sales and Marketing Operations.
• Manage timelines, segmentation, targeting, lead management and optimisation using data, insight and testing.
• Evolve the campaign measurement framework and report on engagement, influence, conversion, ROI and commercial contribution.
• Coach Campaign Managers and Marketing Consultant colleagues on campaign practice.

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What you would do

• Complete a three-year graduate trainee programme with four 9-month placements (three in Edinburgh, one in Manchester).
• Work across key areas of Finance including performance reporting, strategy and decision support.
• Analyse data to support decision-making and improve customer outcomes.
• Build stakeholder management skills working with colleagues across the bank.
• Develop negotiation and challenging skills to make clear decisions.
• Study towards a professional accountancy qualification with ICAS.

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• Assist the Senior Social Media Lead in planning, creating, analysing and coordinating social media and marketing content across Standard Life and wider Group initiatives.
• Support content production and channel management across social platforms.
• Assist with event support and customer experience delivery activities.
• Apply brand governance, compliance and quality standards to ensure outputs align with Group standards.
• Use AI-enabled tools to enhance content planning, social analytics and productivity.
• Create reports and presentations using MS Office applications.

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• Build understanding of economic crime risks across customers, products, and channels.
• Identify patterns, trends, and potential risks using data and analytical tools.
• Work alongside industry experts to develop investigation and risk assessment skills.
• Gain exposure to Operations, risk and control management, and data and analytics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the three lines of defence.
• Apply critical thinking and risk-based judgement in real-world scenarios.

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What you would do

• Own the technical direction of a data engagement, setting standards for pipeline architecture, data modelling, testing, and operational readiness.
• Lead and technically direct a team of data engineers, allocating work, reviewing designs and code, and unblocking technical challenges.
• Design and evolve data platform architecture on Microsoft Fabric, including data pipelines, Azure OneLake, and the broader Azure ecosystem.
• Set and enforce CI/CD, testing, and operational practices across data engineering workflows using Azure DevOps.
• Build professional relationships with key client stakeholders, translating business and data requirements into a coherent technical roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the most complex issues in live data pipelines and lead incident response.

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• Own the end-to-end data lifecycle from clinical study data collection to clinical validation trials.
• Design and manage scalable data infrastructure across clinical trials, sensor platforms, and HPC environments.
• Maintain and optimize data storage, access, security, and backup systems.
• Develop data manipulation, processing, and testing tools to ensure data quality and reliability.
• Define and implement data architecture, engineering best practices, and standards across R&D.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, researchers, and cross-functional teams to align data systems with project goals.

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• Undertake a three-year PhD via the Wellcome-funded ECAT programme, conducting research in genetics, cell biology, in vivo model systems, human disease and health data science.
• Complete a lead-in year (0.7 FTE) dedicated to developing external funding applications.
• Identify and apply for external PhD funding during the lead-in year.
• Work towards substantive further funding in the post-PhD year.
• Contribute to teaching and supervision of veterinary students and researchers.

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• Design and maintain a robust, high-quality database of livestock data derived from low and middle-income countries.
• Ensure data is clean, harmonized, well described and governed.
• Build trusted, secure, well-governed data systems from complex and often undocumented data sources.
• Drive best practice across the organisation and help the organisation become AI-ready.

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What you would do

• Design, build, and maintain AI-powered applications and services.
• Develop and deploy Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions.
• Build RAG systems and AI agents.
• Integrate foundation models and APIs into enterprise applications.
• Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy ML models.
• Develop feature engineering and model evaluation pipelines.

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