Senior Data Scientist, Octopus Energy Group
Octopus Electric Vehicle
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The UK's most awarded energy supplier
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The UK's most awarded energy supplier
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.
Role
Who you are
- First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation
- Ideally, extensive experience in a data science or analytics role, with a clear track record of delivering business impact
- A product-minded approach – you’ll have a track record of being able to keep your eye on the outcome of a project and not get blinkered on a specific technical avenue
- Evidence of being able to extract clear objectives and requirements from broad challenges or questions
- Eagerness to get your hands dirty and work across the whole data lifecycle
- Great attention to detail
- Expertise in communicating complex ideas clearly, and a strong background in using data to influence decisions and behaviours
- Experience with (in rough priority order):
- SQL (experience in writing performant queries)
- Python & DS libraries (sklearn, pandas, spark, etc)
- Data transformation
- Data visualisation & storytelling
Desirable
- DBT
- Experience working with ambiguity in a scale-up (or scale-up-like) environment
- Passion about shaping the direction of the team, and excitement about working across all areas of the business
- You don’t need experience with electric vehicles (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar environments might be a bonus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist (SQL, Python, Scikit Learn, Pandas) to join our Data Team to revolutionise the electric car leasing industry
- Build and maintain infrastructure that processes and centralises data from lots of internal and external sources, so our data-hungry users can answer questions without our intervention
- Build data analytics and data science applications, so we can make better decisions that help us unlock growth opportunities or efficiency gains
- Collaborate directly with senior stakeholders across all teams to identify how the Data Team can help them achieve their goals
- Own the full end-to-end design of technical solutions that help us achieve our goals – from data gathering, to analytics engineering, to model selection, training and interpretation
- Conduct experiments and proofs of concept by developing and deploying machine learning models to solve critical growth/efficiency challenges (like lead scoring, delivery forecasting, customer sentiment prediction, etc)
- Work closely with our Senior Data Engineer to deploy your models
- Regularly package your insights (be it from analytics or modelling) into clear narratives that help non-technical audiences make better decisions
- Contribute actively to our stack by building pipelines and DBT models that enable our users to self-serve
- Pick up tickets raised by our users when they get stuck - from reporting, to query help, to (occasionally) dashboarding
- Help shape the direction of our growing team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and now supplies energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.
Octopus further differentiates itself through its aspiration to make everything as easy as possible for consumers, from the simplicity of their bills and the fact that customers are not locked into a contract, so they can leave at any time, to offering customer service over email and social media at times that suit customers. It aims to make the eco‐friendly choice the easy choice, so all of its tariffs use 100% green electricity, while being cheaper than competitors' non-green tariffs.
Its continually creating innovative new products too. For example, Octopus Tracker, where prices change daily to guarantee you get the market rate; Agile, where the price changes every half hour to enable you to benefit from cheap electricity when the sun shines, the wind blows, and the networks are under-utilised. One of the current challenges the company faces is that its products are more complex than its competitors, given that it uses 1000x more data than traditional energy companies. Because of this, it's exploring ways to explain to customers exactly how their products work.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2023
$800m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2022
$225m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Equity Option Scheme
- Pension Scheme: We'll pay 5%. You can decide what you contribute, starting from 3%
- Money Coach: You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach . They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
- Holidays: We're all grown ups, so we don't count your holidays here. We work hard and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course)
- Flexible working: We're passionate about a genuine work-life balance here and we don't pay people to watch a clock. Need to catch that school nativity or work from home? That's cool
- Free Breakfast + other stuff: ice lollies if you're lucky)! Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner
- Tech: We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
- Car Salary Sacrifice: Browse the wide selection of electric vehicles and get a sample quote under our workplace salary sacrifice scheme. If approved, the monthly leasing costs are taken directly from your gross salary each month meaning you're saving on paying some tax
- Cycle to Work Scheme: The Cycle to Work Scheme is a cost effective way to “buy” a bike up to a value of £2.5K, which hopefully is enough for a decent commuting bike, even an electric one. This extends to the cost of accessories and safety equipment as well as the bike
- Season Ticket Loan: Commuting to the office on the regs? If you travel more than twice a week, it’s worthwhile getting an annual ticket. With our Season Ticket Loan, you can spread out the cost over 10 months. It’s quick and easy to sort. Once approved and ordered, your season ticket will be posted to you within 5 days or so
- Maternity leave: 16 weeks full pay + 8 weeks half pay + 15 weeks statutory maternity pay
- Paternity leave: 12 weeks full pay
- Private Medical Insurance: Say goodbye to long waiting lists! For anyone who wants some additional peace of mind when it comes to their health, we offer Private Healthcare Insurance at different levels of cover. The monthly costs are taken directly from your gross salary and spread across 12 months. You even save on National Insurance
- Gym & Yoga: You can get up to 25% discount on gym memberships and we have 45 minute live yoga classes open to all Octopus staff twice a week!
- Headspace: Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available
- Eye Test: Free eye test vouchers for all colleagues who use Visual Display Units (VDU). Long spells of VDU work can often be visually demanding and can lead to tired eyes, discomfort, temporary short sightedness and headaches
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Greg Jackson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Adviser at Ashcombe Advisers for 9 years and a Non-Executive Director at Zopa for 7 years.
James Eddison
(CTO)Previously CEO at Claripoint for 7 years and CTO at Tangent Labs also for 7 years.
Stuart Jackson
(Co-Founder & CFO)Previously a Director of "Foundation" Business Unit at Barclaycard for 2 years and Chief of Staff, Secured Lending SBU at Barclays also for 2 years.
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Assistant, being promoted to Marketing Executive after 6 months and again to Junior Product and Marketing Manager after 7 months. After 8 months they became a full Product and Marketing Manager.
Joined as Senior Talent Partner, being promoted to Talent Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Talent Acquisition after 8 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Energy Group
- Unconscious Bias workshops for interviewers and hiring managers
- Octopus Energy Equality Foundation
- Partnership with the Saracens High School - inspiring future generations - https://www.saracens.com/powering-futures-together-saracens-high-school-octopus-energy/
- Octopus Energy Internships - https://octopus.energy/blog/ada-lovelace-tech-internship/
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