ICF supports governments and organisations on challenges in areas such as energy, the environment, aviation, health and public policy. Our data science team works with subject matter experts to turn evidence and data into practical solutions for clients in the UK and EU. You will help deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects, working with subject matter experts to frame questions, analyse evidence and deliver findings. This is a hands‑on technical and consulting role: you will discuss needs with specialists, present approaches and results to varied audiences, and contribute to proposals. You will join an established team and work across technically diverse projects. Speak with subject matter experts and clients to define the problem, success measures, data needs and an appropriate analytical approach. Prepare and analyse data, develop and evaluate models or prototypes using statistical methods, forecasting, machine learning or language models where suitable. Contribute technical ideas, estimates and evidence to proposals, and manage your work across several concurrent projects. Share methods and reusable approaches with colleagues across the data science team. Hands‑on experience in Python for analysis and modelling, including common data and machine learning libraries, ability to use SQL to extract, join and check data. Sound grounding in statistics and machine learning, including regression or classification, forecasting, validation, baseline comparisons and appropriate performance measures. Practical familiarity with using large language models in analysis or prototyping, including prompting, checking outputs against evidence and recognising privacy,



accuracy and reliability risks. Experience preparing imperfect data, building reproducible analyses and writing maintainable code with version control and testing. Confidence working independently and engaging stakeholders across teams, clear written and spoken English for technical and nontechnical audiences. Experience in consulting, public policy research or client‑facing delivery, familiarity with cloud platforms, APIs, data pipelines or deployment. Experience building AI agents or applications that connect language models to data and tools, such as retrieval‑based systems. We can train someone with strong core skills. We will support your career development with ongoing training and opportunities to deepen both your technical and consulting skills. Hold the right to work in the country where the role is based, or be eligible for visa sponsorship, which we may consider on a case‑by‑case basis, and Be physically present in that country by their first day of employment (or able to relocate beforehand). Unless stated otherwise, relocation support is not automatically provided. ICF is a integral advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in‑person or virtual) is not permitted. ICF is a global consulting and technology services company with approximately 9,000 employees, but we are not your typical consultants. At ICF, business analysts and policy specialists work together with digital strategists, data scientists and creatives.

📌 Data scientist (Madrid)
🏢 ICF Olson
📍 Madrid