Data Scientist

Job Description

The Data Scientist acts an embedded analytical partner within Digital product teams, serving as the data champion for their assigned domain(s). The role is accountable for delivering high-quality insights, owning KPIs and dashboards, and enabling evidence-based decision-making across Digital initiatives.

While working closely with product, engineering and leadership teams on day-to-day delivery, the role operates within central Data & Analytics standards, governance, and tooling to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability across Digital.

This is a permanent role with long-term ownership of metrics, insight capability, and analytical maturity within Digital.

What you'll be doing

Insight & Analysis

• Analyse customer journeys, behaviours, funnels, and operational performance to generate actionable insights that influence Digital decision-making
• Lead deep-dive analyses on priority Digital problems, translating findings into clear recommendations

KPI & Dashboard Ownership

• Build, maintain, and own Power BI dashboards used by Digital stakeholders
• Define and maintain KPI logic, metric definitions, and documentation to ensure clarity and consistency

Experimentation & Measurement

• Design and analyse experiments (e.g. A/B tests, phased rollouts)
• Define success metrics and provide clear performance assessments and recommendations

Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as the first point of contact for analytical requests within assigned Digital areas
• Work closely with Product owners, BAs, and engineering to shape priorities using data

Data Quality & Governance

• Ensure data hygiene, consistent taxonomy, and adherence to Digital and central Data & Analytics standards
• Proactively identify and resolve data quality issues impacting insight or reporting

What you'll bring

• Degree in related field or equivalent practical experience
• Advanced SQL skills with the ability to work with large, complex datasets
• Proven experience building dashboards to support business decision-making
• Experience working with digital analytics data
• Data Science skillset (Python for analysis, fundamental Machine Learning concepts) for deeper analysis or automation
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and measurement
• Experience working in a product-led or agile Digital environment
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment with changing priorities and incomplete information

Minimum Criteria

• Strong Advanced SQL capability
• Proven experience developing dashboards for business users
• Experience working with large scale analytics data (e.g. GA4, web or app event data)
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to turn data into clear, actionable insight
• Confident communicator, able to influence non-technical stakeholders

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.