Data Scientist

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing team ranging from data analysts and software developers through to client facing and contract negotiation roles.

Ecotricity Smart Grid provides a route to market for distributed energy resources via our in-house developed asset flexibility platform and optimiser. These will typically be grid scale storage, renewable technologies or aggregated demand side response from domestic and business sites.

Given the requirements of the modern energy system, and the need to maximize revenue for our clients, we aim to deliver round-the-clock participation in revenue delivering services for the assets on our platform. This role forms a key element of ensuring that our platform remains operational no matter what.

At the heart of Ecotricity Smart Grid is our flexibility platform and optimiser. This in-house developed software constantly selects between multiple revenue streams, according to their flexibility potential so as to maximise revenue.

Driving this decision making and unlocking hidden value in the energy system, isn't a simple task. We require 24/7 monitoring to ensure that the assets on our platform are operating safely within their limits and responding to the decisions we have made for them.

Working as part of the Tech Team of Ecotricity Smart Grid you will provide hands-on support to deal with rapidly changing market conditions, liaise and coordinate responses to asset or market outages, and support development of our system wide monitoring platform based on your operational insights. Over time your insights will help feedback into the development of our automated algorithms to build the best product possible for our clients.

Issues in this field are often complex, challenging and rapidly changing, therefore the ability to draw clear, concise conclusions from observed data and develop a plan of action quickly is a key skill requirement for the role. In order to find a solution you might need to draw upon all aspects of our team, so the ability to communicate your findings quickly and succinctly is crucial. Part of your journey will likely encompass the training necessary to be able to trade on the platform, when required.

An aspect of the role to be considered is there may be from time to time - according to emergency operational needs - a requirement to work non-standard hours. An adequate compensatory regime exists to cover such events.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives under the pressure of a rapidly changing environment and is keen to deploy their problem solving skills in a fast paced an engaging field.

You need to be a self-starter who embraces responsibility and enjoys working both independently, and as part of a highly collaborative team, and will be comfortable providing thoughts and opinions on the development strategy and direction of the platform.

About You

Core Responsibilities

• Monitor and verify results from our decision making platform
• Provide feedback to the technical development team on improvements to our decision making algorithm
• Provide hands-on support to mitigate against platform downtime
• Observe and respond to situations which require manual intervention
• Respond to unplanned asset and market outages where necessary
• Identify key support processes and document for wider use within team.
• Fulfil compliance responsibilities to NESO, such as telephony support

Skill Set Required

• Ability to coordinate a response to complex situations
• Strong analytical, theoretical and numeric skills
• Experience in the Energy Industry.
• Degree in a numerate subject, or a proven track record of quantitative and qualitative analytical abilities, ideally in a commercial setting

Additional Skills

• Understanding of Optimisation techniques
• Experience using AWS or other cloud services
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or other
• Strong initiative and the ability to take the lead.
• Qualified spot trader would be beneficial
• Python programming

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution Volunteering Day Hybrid Working Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events) Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.