Data Scientist, VP (AI and Modelling)

A boutique investment bank in London is hiring a Data Scientist at VP level to build AI and modelling products for its bankers. Hands-on, small team, and what you build goes into production and gets used on live deals. To be clear on what this is not: it is not a trading or markets seat. The work is banker solutions, built for the people doing the deals. What you will be doing: • Building generative AI and machine learning products end to end, from prototype through to production. LLMs and NLP applied to real M&A and advisory problems, not proofs of concept that go nowhere • Statistical and predictive modelling, from framing the question through to a model in production • Writing production-quality Python and owning your own code, working closely with engineering • Working directly with senior bankers, and explaining your models and your reasoning to people who are not data scientists What they are looking for: • Genuine hands-on depth. You are still building models and writing code every day, and you want to keep it that way • Real AI and modelling rigour, and the ability to talk through the choices you made and why • A platform and product background rather than a purely business-facing or advisory one • Financial services experience, ideally investment banking. M&A or advisory exposure is a real advantage • A CV with real substance behind each role, and tenure that shows you build things rather than pass through Worth knowing before you apply: the interview process includes a live coding exercise, so you will need to be comfortable writing code in front of people. If that sounds like you, send your CV through, and I will come back to you. Bowers Partnership is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy