Location: VHQ, Crawley, 3 days on site in line with our hybrid working model

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Closing Date: 20th November 2025

Department: Data & AI

Reports to: Manager of Data Science and Operational Research

In a nutshell

Are you a data scientist who turns models into measurable business impact?

At Virgin Atlantic, we’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to design, build and productionise machine-learning solutions that shape how we fly, plan and delight our customers.

You’ll own the full project life cycle, from defining the business problem and exploring the data to deploying, monitoring and continuously improving models in production. Your work will directly influence operations scheduling and customer experiences, powering decisions that keep Virgin Atlantic ahead of the curve.

As an important member of our team you’ll also help define our data-science best practices, and champion a culture that values experimentation collaboration and delivery excellence.

Day to day

• Lead end-to-end ML projects from concept through deployment and post-launch performance analysis.
• Build and test predictive and prescriptive models that deliver tangible business outcomes.
• Collaborate with data engineers and ML engineers to design robust pipelines integrated with CI/CD workflows, ensuring models are reproducible, version‑controlled, and continuously deployed with confidence.
• Implement monitoring and retraining frameworks to maintain model performance and governance over time.
• Contribute to internal ML frameworks and tooling, streamlining how we experiment, validate and deploy models at scale.
• Partner with stakeholders across the airline to translate complex analytical results into actionable recommendations.

About you

You’re an experienced impact‑drive data scientist with multiple sin‑bar elapsed and magnitude ...