Product Data Science Lead

• Lead a new team, leveraging cutting-edge data science to develop products that accelerate the energy transition and enhance customer experience.
• Collaborate with product leadership and engineering teams to define the product roadmap.
• Analyze product usage to monitor performance and inform prioritisation.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to the growth of the data science community.
• Develop and implement A/B tests and other experimental designs to measure product impact.
• Communicate complex data findings and recommendations clearly and concisely.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in data science and analytics., * We employ software engineering best practices to design, test, and deploy our data platform and services using the below technologies:
• Python as our main programming language
• Databricks as our datalake platform
• Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration
• Terraform for infrastructure
• Streamlit for data applications
• Airflow purely for job scheduling and tracking
• Circle CI for continuous deployment
• Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage
• Spark for data processing
• DBT for data modellingSpark
• SQL for analytics

• End-to-end experience in designing and building data products using large datasets.
• A passion for both hands-on data work and leading teams to produce high-quality output.
• Experience managing and nurturing junior data scientists.
• Hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools, including those in our data platform stack (as below).
• Experience in utility companies or other data-intensive industries.
• Broad experience applying various analytical techniques at companies of different sizes.

Octopus is a true leader in advancing the global energy sector, delivering impactful products such as Zero Bills homes and intelligent time of use tariffs, all whilst building worldwide renown for its customer service. In fact, we are the only one of the big six energy providers in the UK that has a positive net promoter score, and we are starting to replicate that success across the world.