Head of Advanced Analytics & Intelligence
The data landscape is complex and delivering an efficient service will rely on making data work hard on our behalf.
The postholder will lead the development of data solutions to support managing fraud, evidence processing to help speed up decisions as well as developing tools that allow us to better understand and engage with those who should engage with the scheme.The opportunity for the postholder to have an impact on those who deserve compensation is huge, and suits a candidate looking to bring their leadership and experience to bear and make a real impact to real people.
The role offers an unparalleled opportunity to shape and define your position and the benefits that data science can bring to a dynamic team providing a critical, operational assessment function. You’ll pitch project ideas, explore novel collaborations with partners, and foster a team culture of creativity and innovation.
You’ll champion the benefits of data science, AI (including generative) and machine learning to tackle challenges IBCA will face including operational efficiency, forecasting, fraud mitigation & detection, cohort analysis, and more - as well as being capable of conveying the benefits and risks of methods to non-technical audiences.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a drive for social impact to join the data directorate leadership team and hit the ground running, quickly getting to grips with challenges that arise from standing up a greenfield department at pace.
You’ll be a visible technical leader, providing both data science and strategic leadership to your team, as well as supporting a deputy director to shape the data operations function. You’ll confidently lead on work areas and be able to actively identify opportunities to create change, weigh up approaches and proactively deliver a vision.
Two significant areas of opportunity include those arising from the development of graph networks, an image processing / beyond OCR of materials; including emerging methods combining image-text and voice-text transformers.
Responsibilities- Lead Fraud Detection and Evidence Processing Initiatives:
- Develop demand insight:
- Champion Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning:
- Be responsible for the business intelligence / reporting environment:
- Provide Strategic and Technical Leadership: